In 1931, the city fathers of Sunnyvale, California, came up with a unique plan to rescue their town from the doldrums of the Great Depression.Slate From ACM Opinion | August 28, 2015
A revolution is under way in psychiatry. The science underpinning this discipline has in the past shifted from psychology to pharmacology, and now it is changing...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | August 25, 2015
In 1957, a few years after Francis Crick co-discovered the DNA double helix and a few years before he co-won a Nobel Prize for doing so, he published a paper on...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | August 25, 2015
In "Should Conferences Meet Journals and Where?" ACM Publications Board co-chairs Joseph A. Konstan and Jack W. Davidson introduce a proposal that would interweave...Kathryn S. McKinley From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2015
Technology boffins argue the new technologies of intelligent personal learning environments will put universities out of business. Will the purported successor,...Peter J. Denning From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2015
As mobile devices continue to explore and colonize the technology landscape, their conquests are leading us to a new era, beyond search and apps.TechCrunch From ACM Opinion | August 21, 2015
The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s "2001: A Space Odyssey" documents in nearly scientific detail exactly that: the story of how the iconic science-fiction film came...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2015
Twenty years ago I attended my first Def Con. I believed in a free, open, reliable, interoperable Internet: a place where anyone can say anything, and anyone who...Medium From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2015
From a viewing spot in a high bay room at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, I peer through a glass window at a cab that simulates the cockpit of a commercial...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | August 19, 2015
Last month over a thousand scientists and tech-world luminaries, including Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak, released an open letter calling for a global...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 18, 2015
Unfortunately, much of the recent outcry against artificial-intelligence weapons has been confused, conjuring robot takeovers of mankind.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | August 17, 2015
Famed science-fiction writer Fredric Brown (1906–1972) delighted in creating the shortest of short stories. "Answer," published in 1954, encapsulated a prescient...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2015
In the build up to the 2016 U.S. election, both Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are talking about cybersecurity—and specifically state-sponsored...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2015