Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM News
Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama's online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow...
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On a New Jersey Islet, Twilight of the Landline
Hurricane Sandy devastated this barrier island community of multimillion-dollar homes, but in Peter Flihan's view, Verizon Communications has delivered a second...
From ACM Opinion
N.s.a. Director Gives Firm and Broad Defense of Surveillance Efforts
The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said in an interview that to prevent terrorist attacks he saw no effective alternative to...
From ACM Careers
All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders, and firefighter...
From ACM News
And Then Steve Said, 'let There Be an Iphone'
The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere.
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As F.b.i. Pursued Snowden, an E-Mail Service Stood Firm
One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep.
From ACM News
Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself," wrote Walt Whitman, America's great bard of self-promotion.
From ACM Careers
Taiwan Chip Industry Powers the Tech World, but Struggles For Status
Tien Wu, chief operating officer of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, has a problem: the brightest young people in Taiwan do not want to work in the island’s...
From ACM Careers
Intel's Extensive Makeover
While Apple talked about a couple of new products on Tuesday, Intel, with much less fanfare, talked about the transformation of a world, and itself.
From ACM News
Drug Agents se Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.s.a.'s
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...
From ACM News
How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study
Surveillance is certainly much in the news lately. Most notably, of course, there is the continuing outcry over the National Security Agency’s call-tracking program...
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The Pentagon as Silicon Valley's Incubator
In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is...
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In Markets' Tuned-p Machinery, Stubborn Ghosts Remain
A generation ago, when the stock market crashed on Oct. 19, 1987, the Nasdaq stock market appeared to have done much better than the New York Stock Exchange.
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When You Can't Tell Web Suffixes Without a Scorecard
On the Web, there's no place like .home.
From ACM Careers
Master's Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online
Next January, the Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a master’s degree in computer science through massive open online courses for a fraction of the...
From ACM Careers
An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About
Sometimes, there is an actual eureka moment.
From ACM Opinion
Google's Science Fellows Challenge the Company's Fund-Raising For Senator Inhofe
Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two-hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of climate...
From ACM News
F.T.C. Turns a Lens on Abusers of the Patent System
To its defenders, Intellectual Ventures is a revolutionary company unfairly viewed, in the words of its co-founder Peter N. Detkin, "as the poster child of everything...
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