Artificial intelligence is guided by the far-off goal of having software match humans at important tasks.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
The Moscow-based computer security firm Kaspersky Lab has analyzed major new kinds of malware, including Stuxnet, which four years ago was revealed to have damaged...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2014
This year's winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced yesterday as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 19, 2014
Dropbox, the popular cloud storage system that lets people drag files to an icon that puts that data in the cloud and sync new versions across multiple devicesHiding...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 6, 2014
For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | January 27, 2014
At a racetrack in Florida this weekend, 16 robots competed to complete a series of tasks inspired by challenges faced in cleaning up the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore's Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it's held true in the decades since.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 25, 2013
Microsoft's new head of research, Peter Lee, is tasked with helping the company invent the future.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2013
Mark Cerny's soft voice and youthful looks belie the position of power he holds in the video-game industry.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2013
Intel came to dominate computing by consistently beating others at packing transistors ever more densely onto chips for desktop computers and servers.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 3, 2013
Russell Poldrack, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin, is undertaking some intense introspection.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 31, 2013
Don't be surprised if Stephen Wolfram, the renowned complexity theorist, software company CEO, and night owl, wants to schedule a work call with you at 9 p.m. In...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 9, 2013
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2013
Windows 8, the most recent version of Microsoft's operating system, is the most ambitious and the strangest major product ever released by the software giant.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 25, 2013
Miguel Nicolelis, a top neuroscientist at Duke University, says computers will never replicate the human brain and that the technological Singularity is "a bunch...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2013
Samsung Electronics is a company at the top of its game, having become the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer in the last year.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 20, 2012
As the head of Windows product development at Microsoft, Julie Larson-Green is responsible for a piece of software used by some 1.3 billion people worldwide.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 20, 2012
Stuxnet, a piece of malicious software discovered in 2010, targeted industrial software controlling Iran’s uranium-enrichment centrifuges. But the code got loose—and...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 29, 2012
Companies like Apple and Samsung are the public face of the smartphone and tablet boom, but they all rely on ARM, the British company that licenses the energy-efficient...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 9, 2012