When Wally Pfister's Transcendence is released on April 17, millions of moviegoers will be asking themselves, "Could we really upload Johnny Depp into a computer...Slate From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2014
Back in 1991, a New York Times Magazine writer, Anne Matthews, described Andrew Ross, a doyen of American studies, strolling through the Modern Language Association...The Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM Careers | April 14, 2014
The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2014
Technically, Cortana isn't supposed to exist for at least another 500 years, but that's not stopping Microsoft from bringing her to life this week.The Verge From ACM Opinion | April 4, 2014
This week, the Supreme Court tackled one of the thorniest problems in tech policy: software patents.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2014
On March 24 at 2:36 p.m., the New York Post reported that the body of former Nets basketball player Quinton Ross had been found in a shallow grave on Long Island...Slate From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2014
One recent morning, while contemplating writing this column, I scrolled through thousands and thousands of listings for mundane microgigs on Mechanical Turk, or...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2014
The Constitution gives Congress the power to grant inventors a temporary monopoly over their creations to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2014
Tuesday's announcement that Facebook is buying the virtual-reality start-up Oculus for $2 billion no doubt left many people scratching their heads.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | March 26, 2014
The current generation of general-purpose multicore hardware must be fixed to support more application domains and to allow cost-effective parallel programming.Uzi Vishkin From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2014
Research vice presidents at some computing giants, such as Microsoft and IBM, rule over divisions housed in dedicated facilities carefully insulated from the rat...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2014
What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 17, 2014