Ever since the early days of modern computing in the 1940s, the biological metaphor has been irresistible.The New York Times From ACM News | December 7, 2011
With President Obama in town last week, things were busy for the New York Police Department's Harbor Unit. Federal security agents were disseminating lists of...The New York Times From ACM News | December 7, 2011
The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are routinely buffed with a helping of digital polish.The New York Times From ACM News | December 1, 2011
Millions of Americans who got on a plane over the Thanksgiving holiday heard the admonition: "Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff."The New York Times From ACM News | November 30, 2011
To satisfy our ever-growing need for computing power, many technology companies have moved their work to data centers with tens of thousands of power-gobbling...The New York Times From ACM News | November 28, 2011
The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late...The New York Times From ACM News | November 28, 2011
In 2009, to better record crime scenes, the New York City Police Department began using the Panoscan, a camera that creates high-resolution, 360-degree panoramic...The New York Times From ACM News | November 21, 2011
David Gelernter is known for many things. As a pioneering computer scientist, he first earned renown by connecting computers together into collaborative networks...The New York Times From ACM News | November 11, 2011
Russian space engineers scrambled Wednesday to salvage an ambitious science mission to Mars after the unmanned spacecraft became stranded in Earth orbit. If they...The New York Times From ACM News | November 10, 2011
Researchers in Britain are about to embark on a 10-year, multimillion-dollar project to build a computer—but their goal is neither dazzling analytical power nor...The New York Times From ACM News | November 8, 2011
Many Google search results will be more timely after Google made a significant change to its search algorithm last week that it said would affect about 35% of...The New York Times From ACM News | November 7, 2011
One of the questions I wrestled with when writing about Steve Jobs was how smart he was. On the surface, this should not have been much of an issue.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2011
Jaden Lender, 3, sings along softly with the "Five Little Monkeys" app on the family iPad, and waggles his index finger along with the monkey doctor at the warning...The New York Times From ACM News | October 26, 2011
It has been more than six decades since Warren Weaver, a pioneer in automated language translation, suggested applying code-breaking techniques to the challenge...The New York Times From ACM News | October 25, 2011
The designers of Stuxnet, the computer worm that was used to vandalize an Iranian nuclear site, may have struck again, security researchers say.The New York Times From ACM News | October 19, 2011
Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare...The New York Times From ACM News | October 18, 2011
Regulators in the United States and overseas are cracking down on computerized high-speed trading that crowds today’s stock exchanges, worried that as it spreads...The New York Times From ACM News | October 17, 2011