The U.S. General Services Administration is now accepting applications for the third round of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program. Federal Computer Week From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2014
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...Technology Review From ACM Careers | March 10, 2014
For the past decade or so, the best defense Getty Images could find against the right-click button on your mouse—home of the "copy" and "save" functions—has been...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 6, 2014
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, said Tuesday that the leaks by the former agency contractor Edward J. Snowden had slowed...The New York Times From ACM News | March 5, 2014
When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2014
Shortly after Tim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2014
Internet Engineering Task Force members are focusing on security and how to protect users from pervasive monitoring in a meeting that began Sunday in London. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2014
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...The Guardian From ACM News | March 3, 2014
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...Xinhua News Agency From ACM News | February 28, 2014
Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...Time From ACM News | February 28, 2014
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer...Nature From ACM News | February 27, 2014
Companies operating globally could use a new platform to enable local engineers to collaborate with experts abroad in real time to address issues with production...Saarland niversity From ACM TechNews | February 26, 2014
Capturing electricity from ambient RF transmissions can keep low-power applications off the grid.Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2014
Last year's revelations over the U.S. tapping of phone and internet data gave telecoms firms pause for thought over whether they should sell their "big data" for...Reuters From ACM News | February 25, 2014
The new Valid@doc system accelerates online administrative procedures by automatically verifying and validating printed electronic documents.Carlos III niversity of Madrid (Spain) From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2014
Bitcoin suffered a major setback Tuesday as the website of Mt.Gox, the once dominant trading platform for the virtual currency, was all but shut down.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 25, 2014