For one weekend every year, thousands of the world’s best—or worst, depending on your point of view—hackers meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, for Defcon.Time From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2014
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 4, 2014
Earlier this month Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol and current Google vice president, openly asked professional programmers for feedback regarding...ITworld From ACM Opinion | July 31, 2014
Genome scientist and entrepreneur J. Craig Venter is best known for being the first person to sequence his own genome, back in 2001.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 31, 2014
Keith Alexander, the recently retired director of the National Security Agency, left many in Washington slack-jawed when it was reported that he might charge companies...Foreign Policy From ACM Opinion | July 31, 2014
A year after Edward Snowden's digital heist, the NSA's chief technology officer says steps have been taken to stop future incidents. But he says there's no way...NPR From ACM Opinion | July 14, 2014
The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2014
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2014
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2014
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | June 26, 2014
The NYPD could have dozens of new eyes in the transit system—without a cop setting foot on a train—if a plan to put surveillance cameras in subway cars gets the...New York Daily News From ACM Opinion | June 24, 2014
In the eight years since Amazon.com rolled out its cloud-computing business, Amazon Web Services, this has grown from a side project that took advantage of the...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 24, 2014
John M. (Mike) McConnell says that technology alone isn't enough to secure corporate networks from pervasive and increasingly damaging cyberattacks.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 23, 2014
When Steven P. Jobs led Apple, he created a core principle for the company's designers and engineers: stay fully focused on making great products.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 17, 2014
Microsoft is making a significant investment in creating a practical version of the basic component needed to build a quantum computer, the company's head of research...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 12, 2014
HP Cloud Services vice president of product marketing and cloud evangelist Margaret Dawson discusses the technology gender divide. SearchNetworking.com From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2014
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