In their new book, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, authors Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock and Rachel Jones chronicle...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | April 17, 2015
Edward Snowden appears to have a thing for the late British conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher. And his obsession may even be clouding his famously paranoid...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2015
Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors per integrated circuit will double approximately every 18–24 months, has become the defining metaphor of...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2015
The consumer tech world received a jolt in January when the Wall Street Journal reported that Google executives were freezing all sales of its futuristically goofy...Slate From ACM Opinion | April 9, 2015
It is possible, according to many sources, to become invisible, but you must be patient, methodical, and willing to eat almost anything.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 9, 2015
By this point of March Madness, with three games left in the men's NCAA basketball tournament, most brackets are busted.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | April 3, 2015
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2015
Shortly before the dreadful crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, I happened to be reading part of "The Second Machine Age," a book by two academics at M.I.T., Erik...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2015
Finding a better solution by thinking about the problem and its solution, rather than just thinking about the code.Leslie Lamport From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2015
Two proposals intended to reduce flaws in software use two very different approaches for software security.Dorothy E. Denning From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2015
The N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament started Thursday, but for most Americans the real action began days before, as they pored over brackets, competing to make...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 23, 2015
I've seen two competing visions for a future in which virtual objects are merged seamlessly with the real world.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 20, 2015