When Jayson E. Street broke into the branch office of a national bank in May of last year, the branch manager could not have been more helpful.Wired From ACM News | March 5, 2012
In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...Wired From ACM News | March 2, 2012
A worldwide manhunt kicks off at the end of March—a search across America and Europe for five fugitives, identifiable only by their mugshots.Wired From ACM News | March 1, 2012
Unlike Google, Facebook believes the wimps have a future in the data center. As variousacademics and free-thinking startups seek to reinvent the server using ultra...Wired From ACM News | February 27, 2012
The Stockton Tunnel, excavated in 1914, lets San Francisco drivers get between downtown and Fisherman’s Wharf without having to ascend the scarily steep grades...Wired From ACM News | February 24, 2012
For most of the U.S. military's far-flung community of scientists and engineers, Monday was a day to pop a Xanax.Wired From ACM News | February 14, 2012
After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas Technologies—named after the Irish word for knowledge—may...Wired From ACM News | February 10, 2012
Sam Ramji met AT&T chief technology officer John Donovan on a speed date—or at least the tech world equivalent of a speed date.Wired From ACM News | February 7, 2012
Last Monday, Intel shelled out $125 million to buy Infiniband from Qlogic, a little-known maker of data-center networking switches and cards. At first blush, it...Wired From ACM News | January 30, 2012
A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants...Wired From ACM News | January 25, 2012
Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It's one of the few psychological terms in education that...Wired From ACM News | January 20, 2012
Luiz André Barroso doesn't see Google's data centers as data centers. He sees them as computers the size of warehouses.Wired From ACM News | January 13, 2012
It was an epic space rescue that, in audacity and risk, echoed NASA's campaign to save the astronauts aboard the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission.Wired From ACM News | January 4, 2012
As part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a team of Web and mobile application developers is redesigning social networking for the era of global protests. Wired News From ACM News | December 28, 2011
If you drive down highway 880 from Oakland, Calif., take an exit about 30 miles south, and snake past a long line of car dealerships, you’ll find an ordinary...Wired From ACM News | December 23, 2011
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Cornell University and its partner Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have been approved to build a...Wired From ACM Careers | December 19, 2011