It's hard to overestimate the importance of Ethernet to networking over the past 25 years. When Network World started, the technology had been around a while,...Network World From ACM Opinion | May 20, 2011
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, warned on Wednesday that government plans to block access to illicit filesharing websites could set a "disastrous precedent"...The Guardian From ACM News | May 19, 2011
Android is open-source software, but it doesn't come with much of an open-source community, and the Google leader of the project explained why.CNET From ACM News | May 17, 2011
A year ago, Ralph Langner was plugging away in relative obscurity, doing security consulting work for the industrial control system industry in his Hamburg headquarters...CNET From ACM News | May 13, 2011
Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks says a new generation of industrial robots could be enabled by better machine vision.Technology Review From ACM News | May 13, 2011
Ted Hoff saved his own life, sort of. Deep inside this 73-year-old lies a microprocessor—a tiny computer that controls his pacemaker and, in turn, his heart.BBC News From ACM News | May 12, 2011
It's been about two months since Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO Léo Apotheker put the company on a new cloud-centric path as part of a big speech laying out a new strategy...AllThingsD From ACM News | May 11, 2011
Two weekends ago, investigators announced that they had recovered the flight data recorder from the wreckage of Air France 447—a jetliner that crashed in the deep...BoingBoing From ACM News | May 11, 2011
The Soviet Union's 1957 launch of Sputnik, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth, had a profound impact on American higher education, and drove Andrew Romberger...Reading Eagle From ACM Opinion | May 10, 2011
As U.S. special forces assaulted Osama bin Laden's walled compound in Pakistan, a Twitter user was already recording a rough outline of the events to come. Sohaib...CNET From ACM Opinion | May 5, 2011
Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell, paperless for more than a decade, envisions data centers saturated with information and services readily available via the...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | May 4, 2011
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called Facebook "the most appalling spying machine ever invented" in an interview with Russia Today, pointing to the popular social...New York Daily News From ACM News | May 3, 2011
Although Apple was silent for several days after researchers raised issues about location information being stored on the iPhone, that wasn’t because it was ignoring...AllThingsD From ACM Opinion | April 28, 2011
Steve Furber, designer of the seminal BBC Microcomputer System and the widely used ARM microprocessor, reflects on his career.Jason Fitzpatrick From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
David Foote, CEO of IT workforce analyst firm Foote Partners, says that U.S. government statistics on IT employment are misleading because they do not track 16...Computerworld From ACM Opinion | April 21, 2011
The inventor of the Web has said that governments must act to preserve the principle of net neutrality. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that legislation may...BBC News From ACM Opinion | April 19, 2011
Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower...CNN From ACM News | April 14, 2011
Boing Boing visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a peek inside the clean room where NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, and other components of the Mars...Boing Boing From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2011
Jack Dorsey is the creator and executive chairman of the popular communications network Twitter. In 2009, he cofounded another company, called Square, which lets...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 12, 2011
It was the usual standing-room-only crowd as Google's Matt Cutts appeared at the South By Southwest technology conference to talk about the inner workings of...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2011