A number of lawmakers on Thursday expressed a growing frustration with technology companies and signaled Congress would consider either curbing encrypted communications...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 14, 2015
A new center to study the implications of artificial intelligence and try to influence its ethical development has been established at the U.K.'s Cambridge University...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 3, 2015
In the era of big data, when demand for statistics is higher than ever, a shadow of danger looms over the numbers revolution: People are increasingly refusing to...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 3, 2015
White House and congressional staffers have asked Silicon Valley executives for new talks in Washington, D.C., to resolve a standoff over encrypted communication...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 20, 2015
In the 1997 action movie Face/Off, an FBI agent must undergo face-transplant surgery and assume the identity of a ruthless terrorist to foil a plot.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | October 29, 2015
Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | October 7, 2015
Silicon Valley companies say they’ve been preparing for yesterday's European Court of Justice decision invalidating the U.S.-Europe Safe Harbor agreement on data...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | October 7, 2015
Statisticians and political scientists are more reliant on the question, "Who do you think will actually win?" than "Who do you like?" when it comes to predictive...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2015
Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 20, 2015
After a two-year shutdown, the atom-smashing machine known as the Large Hadron Collider has embarked on a renewed quest to probe some of the biggest puzzles about...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 28, 2015
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 22, 2015
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 17, 2015
Some hospitals are using a big-data approach to mine intensive-care unit data to help providers and patients realize improved outcomes. The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | June 29, 2015
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 26, 2015
Iridescent's Technovation World Pitch Challenge is an opportunity for pre-college girls with an interest in technology entrepreneurship to win $20,000 in seed funding...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | June 26, 2015
A tremendous number of personnel records—including some quite personal records—have likely been stolen by computer hackers.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 15, 2015