Jeff Bezos is fond of a line that he wrote in a note to Amazon's shareholders in 1997: "We will make bold rather than timid investment decisions where we see a...CNET From ACM Opinion | September 10, 2012
Your cellphone is a tracking device collecting a lot more information about you than you may think, says ProPublica investigative reporter Peter Maass.NPR From ACM Opinion | September 7, 2012
It was a tweet that fired the imagination like few others. On May 10, 2011, at 1:35 in the afternoon, Eric Brewer told the world he was redesigning the most important...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 5, 2012
What do you do after you make that thing that changes the world? If you’re Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and you breathed life into the World Wide Web, you make sure itthe...Time From ACM Opinion | September 5, 2012
For a center of cutting-edge scientific research, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab seems to be a pretty wacky place. Luke Johnson, a graphic designer at the lab, set...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2012
Christopher Steiner talks about his book, "Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World," which explores how the power of algorithms has spread far beyond...Fast Company From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2012
As a high school student in a Detroit suburb in the 1990s, Russ Tedrake did not fit the standard profile of a future computer science professor.MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | August 30, 2012
The 'surround computing' era is coming soon, according to Mark Papermaster, the chief technology officer of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices.VentureBeat From ACM Opinion | August 30, 2012
According to Velvin Hogan, the 67-year-old foreman of the jury in the U.S. trial between the Apple and Samsung, one of the turning points in group's journey to came...CNET From ACM Opinion | August 28, 2012
Christopher Soghoian sniffs out security holes and privacy shortcomings on the Web. Then he urges companies that are responsible—Google, AT&T, and Dropbox have...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 23, 2012
Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe talks about increasing the number of women who study computer science.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2012
The first line in any story about Neal Stephenson will reference his massive, massively complicated, and massively successful novels.The Verge From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2012
I never got around to playing Epic Mickey, and that’s a shame, because I’ve played nearly everything else by game design luminary Warren Spector.Time From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2012
ORNL supercomputers running models to assess climate change ramifications and mitigation tactics are rapidly generating a wide variety of big data in vast volumes...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2012
Joe Kraus isn't just a Google Ventures partner. He's also a poker player, and I think he knows that both pursuits involve a certain amount of gambling, regardless...VentureBeat From ACM Careers | August 14, 2012
BeOS, an operating system that was originally designed for Apple hardware but was passed over for NeXT's OpenStep, has found a new life thanks to Haiku. Techworld Australia From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2012
As space geeks watched nervously to see if NASA's Curiosity rover would land safely on Mars, many found themselves wondering, "Hey, who's that cool dude with the...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 10, 2012
When you visit Manuela Veloso at Carnegie Mellon University, you're not guided to her office by a security officer or even issued instructions by a secretary at...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 10, 2012
On Earth, Scott Maxwell drives his red Prius without paying much attention to the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.CNN From ACM Opinion | August 6, 2012