To prepare for the possibility that it will one day deploy swarms of uncrewed drone submarines, the U.S. Navy is developing a system that will allow the global...The Atlantic From ACM News | June 13, 2016
The allure of building superior poker-playing computer programs is the chance to tackle the challenge of dealing with missing information. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2016
Three years ago, Edward Snowden leaked troves of previously classified information that laid bare the American government's widespread surveillance of its citizens...The Atlantic From ACM News | February 3, 2016
People are always forgetting names. That's because, at least in part, names are arbitrary. A name, in and of itself, doesn't offer much context.The Atlantic From ACM News | February 1, 2016
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.The Atlantic From ACM News | December 8, 2015
There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance.The Atlantic From ACM News | November 20, 2015
Retired four-star general Paul F. Gorman recalls first learning about the "weakling of the battlefield" from reading S.L.A. Marshall, the U.S. Army combat historian...The Atlantic From ACM News | September 29, 2015
A new algorithmic analysis technique can identify the disjointed patterns of speech considered a hallmark of schizophrenia.The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
For decades after its discovery in 1930, Pluto looked like nothing more than a gray smudge in the abyss of space.The Atlantic From ACM News | July 15, 2015
One of the first electronic, programmable computers in the world is remembered today mostly by its nickname: Colossus.The Atlantic From ACM News | July 2, 2015
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 18, 2015
In 1962, during a period of technological and political transition in the undersea-cable industry, the Keawaula cable station was built on Oahu’s west shore for...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 27, 2015
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries—the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 20, 2015
In March, the neuroscientist David Eagleman stood on stage to give a TED talk on sensory substitution, the idea of replacing the duties of one sense by using another...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 14, 2015
Even though the sky looks about the same every night to those of us here on Earth, cataclysmic things happen in outer space constantly.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 12, 2015