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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
President Obama, who emphasizes American innovation, says modernizing the federal Patent and Trademark Office is crucial to "winning the future." So at a time when...The New York Times From ACM News | February 24, 2011
Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael McDonald, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit,...The New York Times From ACM News | February 24, 2011
You may think the only people capable of snooping on your Internet activity are government intelligence agents or possibly a talented teenage hacker holed up...The New York Times From ACM News | February 22, 2011
With Facebook playing a starring role in the revolts that toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, you might think the company’s top executives would use this...The New York Times From ACM News | February 17, 2011
In the pioneer days of the mobile phone industry, wireless carriers raced to put phones in the hands of the unconnected masses. With cellphones now ubiquitous...The New York Times From ACM News | February 16, 2011
At the dawn of the modern computer era, two Pentagon-financed laboratories bracketed Stanford University. At one laboratory, a small group of scientists and engineers...The New York Times From ACM News | February 15, 2011
Pretend for a moment that you are Google’s search engine. Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first result?The New York Times From ACM News | February 14, 2011
The last time NASA visited the Tempel 1 comet, it was with fireworks, on July 4, 2005. On that day, the Deep Impact spacecraft slammed an 820-pound projectile...The New York Times From ACM News | February 14, 2011
Daniel Reetz loves trash bins. A big one in Fargo, N.D., was where he found most of the materials he used to build a scanner that was fast enough to scan a 400...The New York Times From ACM News | February 10, 2011
In the category "What Do You Know?," for $1 million: This four-year-old upstart the size of a small R.V. has digested 200 million pages of data about everything...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2011
In another era, China’s leaders might have been content to let discussion of the protests in Egypt float around among private citizens, then fizzle out.The New York Times From ACM News | February 1, 2011
Computing in general is increasingly applying the old engineering dictum, divide and conquer. Look at the engines behind cloud computing—vast, distributed armies...The New York Times From ACM News | January 31, 2011
This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication....The New York Times From ACM News | January 27, 2011
At the aptly named Tiny Thai restaurant here, a small table, about two and a half feet square, was jammed with a teapot, two plates of curry, a bowl of soup,...The New York Times From ACM News | January 20, 2011
When military investigators looked into an attack by American helicopters last February that left 23 Afghan civilians dead, they found that the operator of a ...The New York Times From ACM News | January 18, 2011
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories...The New York Times From ACM News | January 18, 2011
A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.The New York Times From ACM News | January 7, 2011
Eitan Grinspun, the director of Columbia University’s Computer Graphics Group, doesn't quite qualify as hairdresser to the stars.The New York Times From ACM News | December 30, 2010