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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Congratulations, Barack Obama: You have prevailed in the nerdiest election in the history of the American Republic.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2012
If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age—a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you...Wired From ACM News | October 19, 2012
One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that handled the address books for the entire internet.Wired From ACM News | October 18, 2012
In the years to come, a top group of military scientists believe, the Pentagon may be able to use genomics and bio-markers to spot when a soldier is about to snap...Wired From ACM News | October 15, 2012
The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the...Wired From ACM News | October 9, 2012
In 1966, the U.S. Department of Defense hired Roberts to design the ARPAnet, a computer network that would connect various research outfits across the country.Wired From ACM News | September 28, 2012
The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.Wired From ACM Careers | September 28, 2012
Twitter on Friday reluctantly complied with a judge's order to divulge the tweets and account information connected to an Occupy protester.Wired From ACM News | September 18, 2012
Marko Ahtisaari spreads out several models of Nokia's new smartphone with the self-assurance of a Tiffany diamond salesman.Wired From ACM News | September 7, 2012
Paul Baran set out to build a means of communication that could survive a nuclear war. And he ended up inventing the fundamental networking techniques that underpin...Wired From ACM News | September 6, 2012
There was a time, not all that long ago, when the U.S. military wouldn't even whisper about its plans to hack into opponents' networks.Wired From ACM News | September 5, 2012
It was a tweet that fired the imagination like few others. On May 10, 2011, at 1:35 in the afternoon, Eric Brewer told the world he was redesigning the most important...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 5, 2012
A rogue state is on the verge of developing a deadly biological weapon against which the rest of the world has no defense.Wired From ACM News | August 30, 2012
Some of the biggest bets in the computing industry were made on the fifth floor of Intel's Robert Noyce Building, on the northeast corner of the chip giant's main...Wired From ACM News | August 24, 2012
Mike Olson runs a company that specializes in the world’s hottest software. He's the CEO ofCloudera, a Silicon Valley startup that deals in Hadoop, an open source...Wired From ACM News | August 17, 2012
As space geeks watched nervously to see if NASA's Curiosity rover would land safely on Mars, many found themselves wondering, "Hey, who's that cool dude with the...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 10, 2012
A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infiltrated machines in Iran, has been found...Wired From ACM News | August 9, 2012
Gen. Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency and oversees U.S. Cyber Command, which means he leads the government's effort to protect America...Wired From ACM News | August 3, 2012
The lawyers behind the upcoming Apple v. Samsung trial have been hard at work filing docket after docket as their court battle looms closer, and many of those dockets...Wired From ACM News | July 30, 2012