It's a good bet that, in the next few weeks, President Obama will impose some serious reforms—and ask Congress to enact a few more—on how the National Security...Slate From ACM Opinion | December 20, 2013
Theodor Holm Nelson, who coined the term hypertext, has been a thorn in the side of the computing establishment for more than a half century.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2013
Federal Judge Richard Leon has become a sudden political celebrity after his remarkable opinion holding that antiterror surveillance is unconstitutional and, even...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2013
On December 10, 1993, id Software uploaded the first publicly available version of Doom to a crowded BBS and FTP server, unleashing on the world the most influential...ArsTechnica From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013
Whenever an app, a website, or a physical product like a gaming console is exported, it ships with a side of cultural influence.Wired From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013
To avoid surveillance, the first four Americans to visit Edward Snowden in Moscow carried no cell phones or laptops.Time From ACM Opinion | December 12, 2013
Maybe it's your mom and/or dad. Maybe it's a sibling or a grandparent. Or maybe it's just that one friend who still uses a Motorola Razr from the early 2000s.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 27, 2013
For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 25, 2013
A program to encourage and support girls and women in pursuing their computer science interests.
Wendy M. DuBow, Ruthe Farmer, Zhen Wu, Malia Fredrickson From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2013
Design thinking is the newest fashion for finding better solutions to problems. Combining it with computational thinking offers some real possibilities for improving...Peter J. Denning From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2013