Art and science have always been considered disparate entities. However, acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and award-winning art historian, archaeo-metallurgist and...The Hindu From ACM Opinion | December 14, 2009
Forty years ago—on December 5, 1969—the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) connected four computer network nodes at the University...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | December 8, 2009
Trying to categorize computing as engineering, science, or math is fruitless; we have our own paradigm.Peter J. Denning, Peter A. Freeman From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2009
How government-industry collaboration can have far-reaching economic influences.Orna Berry, Yigal Grayeff From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2009
Highlighting efforts and providing the rationale to increase the participation and success of underrepresented groups in computing.Richard E. Ladner From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2009
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are now becoming instrumental in transforming key industries in the Middle East, as GPUs are poised to unlock groundbreaking capabilities...MySolutionInfo.com From ACM Opinion | November 12, 2009
The concept of distance expresses the distortion measure between any pair of entities lying in a common space. Distances...Frank Nielsen From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2009
Members of the computer science community should become more involved in public service by becoming program managers at federal agencies, the opportunities and...Jonathan M. Smith From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2009
Developing an effective pricing index is essential to understanding the value of broadband connectivity.Shane Greenstein From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2009
How the U.S. Supreme Court's forthcoming decision in the Bilski v. Doll case is expected to affect existing and future software patents.Pamela Samuelson From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2009
Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn't secure? It's because users don't have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important...Butler Lampson From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2009
The venture capital industry, like financial services in general, has fallen on hard times. Part of the problem is that large payoffs...Michael Cusumano From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2009
Conficker's alarming growth rate in early 2009 along with the apparent mystery surrounding its ultimate purpose had raised concern among...Phillip Porras From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2009
Since its beginning, the computer industry has been through several major recessions, each occurring approximately five years...Martin Campbell-Kelly From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2009
In another case where basic technology illiteracy leads a judge to make very questionable statements, a judge declared that because a specific phrase ("spoiled...Techdirt From ACM Opinion | September 18, 2009
I've never really liked the company Sony. On the computer side, it's hardly been a friend of GNU/Linux. The one glimmer of hope for the company was the PS3. Sony's...ComputerworldUK From ACM Opinion | September 2, 2009
Boston College professor Aaron E. Walsh has a vision of making state-of-the-art education freely available to anyone with a computer and Internet connectivity through...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
Maurice Wilkes, the designer and builder of the EDSAC, passed away on Nov. 29 at age 97. He reflects on his career in this 2009 interview.David P. Anderson, Maurice Wilkes From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
Hardware, software, and applications must all evolve in anticipation of the proliferation of parallelism.Anwar Ghuloum From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009