The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages
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From ACM TechNewsMIT News| March 17, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Apple Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer and the director of the National Security Agency squared off on Monday in a debate over how much access technology companies...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 20, 2015
At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | September 30, 2015
A new law in force in Russia from Sept. 1 is intended to force foreign Internet firms to maintain local servers to handle data on Russian citizens.Bloomberg From ACM News | September 2, 2015
As the global elite gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and four other executives from the Internet...Bloomberg From ACM News | August 7, 2015
The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | July 17, 2015
The gearheads in Detroit, Tokyo, and Stuttgart have mostly figured out how to build driverless vehicles. Even the Google guys seem to have solved the riddle.Bloomberg From ACM News | June 25, 2015
For the U.S., the extradition of Ercan Findikoglu shows the value of patience when it comes to pursuing suspected hacker kingpins.Bloomberg From ACM News | June 25, 2015
By Dec. 30, when search teams began to recover debris and bodies from the apparent crash site of AirAsia flight QZ8501, the airline industry had begun to hear renewed...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 9, 2015
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 19, 2014
Federal law protects consumers from the cost of fraudulent charges incurred when thieves steal credit-card and debit-card numbers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 17, 2014
On Sept. 1, the website Rescator.cc alerted customers to a big new batch of product about to hit its digital shelves. "Load your accounts and prepare for an avalanche...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 9, 2014
If you've used the Internet for longer than the iPhone has been around, you're probably familiar with cookies, those little packets of personal data that help load...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 26, 2014
Prototype technology can quickly move large amounts of critical data and software to another location in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2014
In May 2013 the Chinese government conducted what it called a science space mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | July 18, 2014
In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | July 17, 2014
One area of the tech world in which women are making great gains is information security, where they outnumber men in certain positions.Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | July 7, 2014