Humans will face their biggest test when computers surpass human intellectual capabilities, according to Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer turned 40 last month. He (just barely) blew out a row of 40 candles during a mini-celebration at company headquarters... From ACM Opinion | March 27, 2015
In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | February 18, 2015
For more than 20 years, Ivan H. Deutsch has struggled to design the guts of a working quantum computer.Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2015
Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life.BBC News From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2015
Dara Entekhabi, an MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering and of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, is the science team leader of NASA's ...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | January 26, 2015
In 2010 two physicists at Manchester University in the U.K. shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on a new wonder material: graphene, a flat sheet of carbon...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 23, 2015
It's the end of October, when the days have already grown short in Redmond, Washington, and gray sheets of rain are just beginning to let up.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 21, 2015
The leap second is the rare and obscure practice of occasionally adding a second to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) system that most of us use to set our watches...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 9, 2015