A few months ago I went to Cambridge, Mass. to check in with the Event Horizon Telescope crew and found Shep Doeleman, the project leader, fresh off the completion...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 11, 2014
Is Big Data going to revolutionize science and help us make a better world? Not based on what it's done so far.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 10, 2014
Over the weekend, the news broke that a "supercomputer" program called "Eugene Goostman"—an impersonation of a wisecracking, thirteen-year-old Ukranian boy—had...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 10, 2014
Over the weekend, a group of programmers claimed they built a program that passed the famous Turing Test, in which a computer tries to trick judges into believing...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2014
Robots may be poised to enter a new frontier in the workplace—but that doesn't mean the public is ready for it.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 3, 2014
We've all seen those movies where someone goes back in time and tries to change something (the classic "Grandfather Paradox": what happens if you go back in time...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2014
What lessons might we learn from the chip cards used for payments in Europe, now that the U.S. is adopting them too?
Ross Anderson, Steven J. Murdoch From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2014
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2014
In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround in which he introduced three laws that governed the behaviour of robots...Technology Review From ACM News | May 16, 2014
In June 2013, Edward Snowden was sitting in his room at the Mira hotel in Hong Kong, watching the world react to the first of his explosive leaks about the NSA's...Wired From ACM Opinion | May 13, 2014
Thanks to advances in technology, we may soon revisit a question raised four centuries ago: Are there things we should try not to know?The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 12, 2014
When its handlers finally steer it into a collision course with Saturn in 2017, the spacecraft Cassini will have been in space for two decades, 13 of those years...BoingBoing From ACM Opinion | May 9, 2014