I was sitting in the bathtub in 2008 when I thought of a simple way Johannes Vermeer (Girl with a Pearl Earring) might have painted his photorealistic pictures...BoingBoing From ACM Opinion | June 12, 2014
Enough with complaining that young people these days are addicted to their phones. The question you should be asking is: What do they know that you don't?The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 11, 2014
A year after Edward Snowden shocked citizens with details of how much of their lives are being snapped up by the National Security Agency, tech giants have sounded...Politico From ACM Opinion | June 10, 2014
"Learn to Code!" This imperative to program seems to be everywhere these days. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg recently donated ten million dollars to Code.org,...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2014
Three computer bugs this year exposed passwords, e-mails, financial data, and other kinds of sensitive information connected to potentially billions of people.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2014
As any historian, psychologist, sociologist, or scientist will tell you, the truth of an idea has very little to do with how fast it spreads and how well it's believed...Slate From ACM Opinion | June 2, 2014
Computing technology has generated conditions for radical transformations of jobs and professions — including education. How shall we cope?Peter J. Denning From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2014
Relying on dubious claims can cause researchers to focus on the wrong questions and organizations to misdirect security spending.
Dinei Florêncio, Cormac Herley, Adam Shostack From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 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
There's a debate going on about whether the U.S. government—specifically, the NSA and United States Cyber Command—should stockpile Internet vulnerabilities or disclose...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
This spring, the Federal Communications Commission is deciding how to regulate the "Open Internet"—a term it uses to refer to the movement for net neutrality.Slate From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
In "On What We Can Not Do," a short and pungent essay published a few years ago, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben outlined two ways in which power operates...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
In July of 2008, Dylan Breves, then a seventeen-year-old student from New York City, made a mundane edit to a Wikipedia entry on the coati.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | May 20, 2014
The Internet has much to say about the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which determines that if a person wants some personal information...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2014