It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on the bedstand for your (Google) Glass. Peering out at the world through transparent screens, what do you see?The Atlantic From ACM News | November 1, 2012
The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2012
One of the largest and most complex universe simulations ever attempted will be run in October by Mira, the world's third fastest supercomputer. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2012
Cosmology is the most ambitious of sciences. Its goal, plainly stated, is to describe the origin, evolution, and structure of the entire universe, a universe that...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 25, 2012
The near-term future of phones is fairly well-established. The iPhone 5 was released Wednesday and its similarity to every Apple phone since 2007 serves as a reminder...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 14, 2012
Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view.The Atlantic From ACM News | September 12, 2012
Google Earth: source of information, source of wonder, source of art. In 2010, Paul Bourke, a research associate professor at the University of Western Australia...The Atlantic From ACM News | September 11, 2012
For a center of cutting-edge scientific research, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab seems to be a pretty wacky place. Luke Johnson, a graphic designer at the lab, set...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2012
Seventeen miles from downtown L.A., on the campus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, there's a small stretch of earth covered in beach sand, decomposed...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | August 8, 2012
Making a vast, open, distributed network of books, records, and images available to anyone with an Internet link is the goal of the Digital Public Library of America...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | August 1, 2012
Computer scientist Larry Smarr envisions the development of "a distributed planetary computer of enormous power," one that comprises 1 billion processors and that...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2012
I want to tell you about a special place on the surface of Mars. Back in the solar system's early days, a large object slammed into the red planet, leaving behind...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 10, 2012
Last week, in the corners of the Internet devoted to outer space, things started to get a little, well, hot. Voyager 1, the man-made object farthest away from Earth...The Atlantic From ACM News | June 14, 2012
A new patent application from Microsoft points to a future in which your Kinect watches you, and sends ads based on your mood.The Atlantic From ACM News | June 12, 2012
In the last week or so, cyberwarfare has made front-page news: the United States may have been behind the Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran; Iran may have suffered another...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 6, 2012
People who are older than 75 have seen the world do some crazy things. They were born during or before Hitler's rise to power, lived through the deprivation and...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 18, 2012
Think of all the data humans have collected over the long history of astronomy, from the cuneiform tablets of ancient Babylon to images—like the one here—taken...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 23, 2012
B.S. Abdur Rahman University computer scientists M.P. Sivaram Kumar and S. Rajasekaran recently published a research paper that says the existing methods for preventing...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | April 16, 2012