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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Chinese officials have unveiled guidelines for limiting online videogame use by persons under 18, claiming it hurts health and learning.
NPR Online From ACM TechNews | November 8, 2019
In 2003, Jay Siegel was up for a new challenge. Siegel was a tenured professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, but he took a job at the...NPR From ACM Careers | November 27, 2018
When Defense Secretary Ashton Carter landed in Iraq for a surprise visit this week, he came armed with this news: More than 200 additional U.S. troops are headed...NPR From ACM News | April 21, 2016
As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today.NPR From ACM Careers | April 18, 2016
Wearing a green Dartmouth College jersey, the newest player on the school's football team readies for action during a preseason practice.NPR From ACM Careers | August 31, 2015
From the self-checkout aisle of the grocery store to the sports section of the newspaper, robots and computer software are increasingly taking the place of humans...NPR From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2015
There are still relatively few women in tech. Maria Klawe wants to change that. As president of Harvey Mudd College, a science and engineering school in Southern...NPR From ACM Careers | May 2, 2013
Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing...NPR From ACM Careers | October 2, 2012
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...NPR From ACM Careers | September 24, 2012
For more than a decade the CIA has run its own venture capital fund called In-Q-Tel. It was founded in the late 1990s when the CIA was drowning in data and didn't...NPR From ACM Careers | July 17, 2012
Colleges and universities are experimenting with different ways to connect students and teachers. More than 200 institutions are using open-source software created...NPR From ACM News | March 30, 2010