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Even scientists who have made quantum computers their life's work say they can't do anything useful — yet. "They're all terrible…
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As gadgets get smaller, and mobile manufacturers find new ways to shrink their devices to fit on a user's wrist, people like Steve Matteson are focused on keeping...CNET From ACM Opinion | April 9, 2014
Enigma machines have captivated everyone from legendary code breaker Alan Turing and the dedicated cryptographers from England's Bletchley Park to historians and...CNET From ACM News | March 31, 2014
What started as a one-man boycott of the annual RSA Conference here in response to the confab'sparent company's ties to the National Security Agency has begun to...CNET From ACM Careers | February 28, 2014
I was recently having lunch at a lovely and only slightly overpriced cafe overlooking the Pacific in the historic resort region of Kailua-Kona on the dry side of...CNET From ACM News | February 19, 2014
This is a story about prime numbers and the man who took a giant step toward solving a puzzle that has vexed mathematicians for centuries.CNET From ACM Careers | February 12, 2014
Startups whose products challenge the incumbents need to prepare not just for competition but for dirty tricks.CNET From ACM Careers | December 11, 2013
The competition for prominence in academic publishing heated up this week as a traditional company, Elsevier, tangled with a Digital Era rival, Academia.edu.CNET From ACM News | December 9, 2013
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...CNET From ACM News | November 15, 2013
Like a story straight out of the universe of Franz Kafka, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison found himself before a judge in Washington, representing himself against...CNET From ACM Opinion | October 29, 2013
The online repository of academic research papers is building in a new variant of the ages-old peer-review process to scrutinize academic work.CNet From ACM Careers | October 23, 2013
Three years ago, a Silicon Valley robotics startup called Willow Garage shook up the industry by offering one of the first robots capable of a wide range of different...CNET From ACM Careers | October 21, 2013
Big-name companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook aren't necessarily paying their engineers the most (although they're up there), according to a new Glassdoor...CNet From ACM Careers | October 18, 2013
Determined to carve out a niche for itself in the low-power device market, Intel on Thursday announced a partnership to bring its small Quark processors to the ...CNET From ACM Careers | October 3, 2013
In 1983, intrigued by an article on fractals, I wrote a program to display the Mandelbrot set on my family's TRS-80 Color Computer.CNET From ACM Opinion | October 2, 2013