Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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Paul Davison is in a hurry. Not just to board the plane that's about to take him to his father's retirement party in San Diego, or to get through the talking points...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 8, 2012
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 28, 2012
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a decades-old file it kept on Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 9, 2012
They had his dining room waiting. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive and one of the richest men in the world, often eats privately at a Bellevue (Wash.)...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 13, 2012
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 6, 2012
Every day three-quarters of all e-mail that flies across the Internet is spam. Some of it tricks customers into installing a virus or forking over personal information...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 15, 2011
How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 13, 2011
John Rogers was in his lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign six years ago, testing new ways to make electronic circuits, when one of his team...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | October 26, 2011
Women with engineering or computer science degrees face a tricky career path at technology companies and often leave their jobs just as they near their career peaks...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2010