Technology creates many legal quandaries in life, and now it appears, in death, too. While there is currently no case law involving legal access to a person’s data…
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2004 ACM Awards Banquet: a Night to Celebrate
ACM played host to over 200 industry luminaries at its 2004 Awards Banquet held June 5 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The event recognizes technical excellence and…
The National Science Foundation and the National Science Board (which oversees the NSF) issued their strongest warnings yet regarding the loss of U.S. dominance in…
The U.S. government, despite denials to the contrary, is making its first moves toward a military-style draft of citizens with special skills in computers and foreign…
Great concerts will soon produce more lasting memories when clubs and concert halls are equipped with digital kiosks enabling concertgoers to download a recording of the…
The offshoring of IT jobs has become such a political tinderbox in the U.S. that India’s outsourcing specialists fear its repercussions. The chairman of a leading…
The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information…
The U.S. Government, bowing to repeated Secret Service requests, is now deliberately obscuring its highest-quality aerial photographs over Washington in an effort to hide…
White-light scanning technology used to map the human body as thousands of data points is helping create a sizing database of vital statistics for not only apparel…
An increasing number of users are listening to anti-piracy campaigns instead of music, according to survey results from the New York-based research firm, NPD Group. When…
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