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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and despises dissidents in his country.The New York Times From ACM News | September 12, 2011
Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 12, 2011
In its suit to block AT&T’s $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile, the Justice Department leans heavily on the argument that consolidated market power is bad for consumers...The New York Times From ACM News | September 8, 2011
It is still possible to distinguish between a living, breathing character in a movie and an animated one—but it is getting harder.The New York Times From ACM News | September 1, 2011
When people in the technology industry speak of Steven P. Jobs’s knack for design, they often have Apple’s iconic products in mind: the early all-in-one Macintosh...The New York Times From ACM News | August 25, 2011
Hundreds of framed patents hang on two separate walls at the headquarters of Motorola Mobility in Libertyville, IL. They testify to the pride in innovation at...The New York Times From ACM News | August 23, 2011
A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...The New York Times From ACM News | August 18, 2011
The arrests were routine. Two women were taken into custody after they were discovered peering into cars in a downtown parking garage in Santa Cruz, Calif. One...The New York Times From ACM News | August 16, 2011
As rioting continues to roil the streets of London, local police forces are turning to the Web to help unmask those involved in the torching and looting. On...The New York Times From ACM News | August 10, 2011
Why are the Feds hobnobbing with hackers? Defcon, a convention of computer hackers here, was crawling with federal agents on Friday. They smiled, shook hands,...The New York Times From ACM News | August 6, 2011
The Pentagon is developing plans to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter as both a resource and a weapon in future conflicts. Its research and...The New York Times From ACM News | August 3, 2011
Mike Nichols has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible...The New York Times From ACM News | August 3, 2011
A coalition of 29 American universities is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks—with Internet service several hundred...The New York Times From ACM News | July 28, 2011
If not for a computer scientist’s hobby of collecting old telegraph codebooks, a crucial chapter in modern cryptography might have been lost to history.The New York Times From ACM News | July 27, 2011
Imagine, if you will, a young Mark Zuckerberg circa 2003, tapping out mail messages from his Harvard dorm room. It's a safe bet he never would have guessed that...The New York Times From ACM News | July 26, 2011
Companies have long used criminal background checks, credit reports and even searches on Google and LinkedIn to probe the previous lives of prospective employees...The New York Times From ACM News | July 25, 2011
When the Taliban dug an elaborate tunnel system beneath the largest prison in southern Afghanistan this spring, they set off a scramble to catch the 475 inmates...The New York Times From ACM News | July 18, 2011