As computational tools open up new ways of understanding history, historians and computer scientists are working together to explore the possibilities.Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2013
YouTube has a billion unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month, equivalent to one out of every two people on the Internet—and the generationsmartphones...The Guardian From ACM Careers | March 22, 2013
The Central Intelligence Agency has published for the first time "Some Far-Out Thoughts on Computers," a 1962 internal document that shows how eager the agency...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 21, 2013
In the future, your smartphone won't auto-correct your errors. It will correct them before they're even made.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 19, 2013
Patterns of "Likes" posted by people on Facebook can unintentionally expose their political and religious views, drug use, divorce, and sexual orientation, researchers...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 19, 2013
Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people's privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords...The New York Times From ACM News | March 13, 2013
Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype's role in China’s online surveillance apparatus.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 12, 2013
While the work computers do becomes increasingly complex, humans still may be called upon to provide the programs with context and nuance. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2013
How do you build a search engine that's more attuned to natural language, capable of divining what you mean, and giving back what you want?Slashdot From ACM Opinion | March 11, 2013
Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying...ProPublica From ACM News | March 8, 2013
Depending on how one defines its birth, Hadoop is now 10 years old. In that decade, Hadoop has gone from being the hopeful answer to Yahoo’s search-engine woes...GigaOm From ACM News | March 8, 2013
Researchers found evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did by analyzing search engine query data. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 8, 2013
Consider the tongue. It's sensitive yet muscular, packed with taste buds and nerves, and without its acrobatic ability humans wouldn’t be able to eat or talk. It's...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2013
At a former paper-printing factory in Hong Kong, a 20-year-old wunderkind named Zhao Bowen has embarked on a challenging and potentially controversial quest: uncovering...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 26, 2013
No one knows for sure how many individual pages are on the web, but right now, it’s estimated that there are more than 14 billion.Smithsonian magazine From ACM News | February 22, 2013
A congressman gets an earful from his neighbor after church about a tax bill. A senator suddenly finds old high school classmates calling her about an upcoming...Politico From ACM Careers | February 20, 2013
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...The Guardian From ACM News | February 19, 2013