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
In the Northern hemisphere's sky, hovering above the Milky Way, there are two constellations—Cygnus the swan, her wings outstretched in full flight, and Lyra, the...The Atlantic From ACM News | October 19, 2015
The question of whether there is life on Mars is woven into a much larger thatch of mysteries. Among them: What happened to the ancient ocean that once covered...The Atlantic From ACM News | October 8, 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
In 1965, Ivan Sutherland, a computer-graphics pioneer, addressed an international meeting of techies on the subject of virtual reality.The Atlantic From ACM News | September 21, 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
People have long thought of astronomy as the science of looking to the stars, but discoveries in the cosmos increasingly come from a different kind of observational...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 21, 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
Imagine if every time you learned something new, you completely forgot how to do a thing you'd already learned.The Atlantic From ACM News | April 8, 2015
If the government puts a GPS tracker on you, your car, or any of your personal effects, it counts as a search—and is therefore protected by the Fourth Amendment...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 31, 2015
Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that...The Atlantic From ACM News | February 9, 2015