The corporation isn't a sturdy species. In fact, only a tiny fraction reach the age of 40, according to study of more than six million firms by management professors...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | January 9, 2012
The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011—and quickly turned out to be the year’s biggest flop.The New York Times From ACM News | January 6, 2012
If you'd like to work on software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on.WebMonkey From ACM News | January 6, 2012
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 6, 2012
Searches for "browser" no longer bring up the Google Chrome home page after Google applied a penalty against the page because of Google's own sponsored post campaign...Search Engine Land From ACM News | January 6, 2012
Mike Fennelly isn't easily surprised by cutting-edge technologies, but when he started as an IT guy at a Silicon Valley startup called Evernote, he was caught...National Public Radio From ACM News | January 5, 2012
Happy New Year. IT market-research outfit Gartner has some sour news to start off 2012: It has just slashed its growth forecast for global on tech spending.AllThingsD From ACM News | January 5, 2012
Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq.The New York Times From ACM News | January 5, 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
After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian...The Los Angeles Times From ACM News | January 3, 2012
Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
Paul Hyman From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2012
Researchers untangle the complex web of Apple's global supply chain — and offer lessons for managers and policymakers trying to chart the future course of U.S....Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2012
The centennial celebrations of Alan Turing's birth might help turn a quiet British genius into an iconic global hero.Sarah Underwood From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2012
International law has always been a murky and Byzantine area. However, the Internet and digital technology have raised the stakes, the risks, and the challenges...Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2012
Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2012
The U.S. NIST will make funding available for research subjects such as information technology, smart grid and control system security, and systems integration...Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | December 29, 2011
When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming.The Associated Press From ACM News | December 28, 2011
At the beginning of this year I wrote that the transition to universal mobile digital money is likely to be among the most exciting, important and challenging...Irving Wladawsky-Berger From ACM Opinion | December 28, 2011