Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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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.
Matt Valentine, head of Microsoft's enterprise solutions for Hong Kong, shares a key piece of advice with his five- and seven-year-old children: when it comes to...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 8, 2013
Huawei Technologies Co. has made a name supplying network equipment to clients world-wide, but the Chinese company's emphasis on research and development over manufacturing...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 8, 2013
On a dark and stormy night two weeks ago in Schenectady, N.Y., Ken Hislop was relaxing at home when his cellphone suddenly began buzzing in his pocket. It was an...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 17, 2013
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that human genes isolated from the body can't be patented, a victory for doctors and patients who argued that such...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 13, 2013
Data collected by the National Security Agency's program that monitors Americans' phone calls could be used to track millions of people's locations through their...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 10, 2013
The goal of the U.S. patent system is clear: to provide individuals or companies with an incentive to innovate by offering them 20 years of exclusive rights to...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
Ray Kurzweil must encounter his share of interviewers whose first question is: What do you hope your obituary will say?The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2013
In the future, your smartphone won't auto-correct your errors. It will correct them before they're even made.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 19, 2013
Patterns of "Likes" posted by people on Facebook can unintentionally expose their political and religious views, drug use, divorce, and sexual orientation, researchers...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 19, 2013
A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 7, 2013
The White House threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage as it cataloged more than a dozen cases of cyberattacks...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 21, 2013
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | February 4, 2013
This year's Consumer Electronics Show is being dominated by the term "context awareness," which describes technology that enables products to pick up clues to users'...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2013
For pirates in China, where illegal software sales greatly outmatch legal ones, a new version of Windows typically means a new treasure ship to plunder.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 14, 2012