Quantum annealing computers can run algorithms faster than classical computers in certain instances, but typically not when time…
From ACM TechNewsLos Alamos National Laboratory| August 17, 2022
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Pleasing the crowd at the Black Hat and Def Con computer security conferences that took place in Las Vegas last week is relatively easy: simply hop on stage and...Technology Review From ACM News | August 3, 2012
The U.S. Internet's infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure...Technology Review From ACM News | July 31, 2012
It is seemingly a fact of life that every new generation of computing gadget will be significantly more powerful than the one before, but a looming technical roadblock...Technology Review From ACM News | July 17, 2012
Many readers will have watched the final of the Euro 2012 soccer championships last Sunday in which Spain demolished a tired Italian team by 4 goals to nil. The...Technology Review From ACM News | July 5, 2012
George Church is an imposing figure—over six feet tall, with a large, rectangular face bordered by a brown and silver nest of beard and topped by a thick mop of...Technology Review From ACM News | July 2, 2012
At first glance, Thad Starner does not look out of place at Google. A pioneering researcher in the field of wearable computing, Starner is a big, charming man with...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2012
If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world...Technology Review From ACM News | June 14, 2012
"[Gordon] Moore is my boss, and if your boss makes a law, then you'd better follow it," says Mark Bohr, who leads Intel's efforts to make advances in microchip...Technology Review From ACM News | May 2, 2012
The Web has fundamentally changed the business of advertising in just a few years. So it stands to reason that the process of creating ads is bound to change, too...Technology Review From ACM News | April 27, 2012
The U.S. Department of Defense may have funded the research that led to the Internet, but freewheeling innovation created the patchwork of privately owned technology...Technology Review From ACM News | March 1, 2012
On 6 May 2010, shares on U.S. financial markets suddenly dropped on average by around 10% but in over 300 stocks by more than 60%. Moments later the prices recovered...Technology Review From ACM News | February 16, 2012
Late this January, some 75,000 people around the planet sat in front of their computers and pondered how to make anagrams from a bowl of alphabet soup.Technology Review From ACM News | February 6, 2012
During this Sunday's Super Bowl, a record five million viewers are expected to tweet or make other social media comments—not just about the game, but also about...Technology Review From ACM News | February 3, 2012
"Carrier IQ" is a company that sells software to wireless companies that reports how well networks are performing in real-time, by sending performance data from...Technology Review From ACM News | December 5, 2011
The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...Technology Review From ACM Careers | September 30, 2011
If anyone can preview the future of computing, it should be Alfred Spector, Google's director of research. Spector's team focuses on the most challenging areas...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 22, 2011