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From ACM NewsEsther Shein Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 8, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Mississippi had a problem born of the age of soaring student testing and digital technology. High school students taking the state’s end-of-year exams were using...The New York Times From ACM News | December 29, 2010
Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with...The New York Times From ACM News | December 28, 2010
Anyone who has witnessed the megapixel one-upmanship in camera ads might think that computer chips run the show in digital photography.The New York Times From ACM News | December 23, 2010
Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film. And you enjoy using email.The New York Times From ACM News | December 22, 2010
Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are...The New York Times From ACM News | December 17, 2010
Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents...The New York Times From ACM News | December 16, 2010
An I.B.M. supercomputer system named after the company’s founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., is almost ready for a televised test: a bout of questioning on the quiz...The New York Times From ACM News | December 15, 2010
Almost two years ago, President Obama pledged $19 billion in stimulus incentives to help convert the nation’s doctors and hospitals to using a paperless system...The New York Times From ACM News | December 14, 2010
In a world that is always on camera, the centuries-old courtroom experience is becoming a lot more complicated.The New York Times From ACM News | December 9, 2010
A small army of activist hackers orchestrated a broad campaign of cyberattacks on Wednesday in support of the beleaguered antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks,...The New York Times From ACM News | December 8, 2010
The government warns Americans to closely guard their Social Security numbers. But it has done a poor job of protecting those same numbers for millions of people...The New York Times From ACM News | December 7, 2010
I met a man with seven wives. ...” You may know this singsong quiz, But what you might not know is this: That it began with ancient Egypt’s Early math-filled manuscripts...The New York Times From ACM News | December 7, 2010
As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing why top...The New York Times From ACM News | December 6, 2010
An American provider of Internet domain names withdrew its service to the WikiLeaks Web site late Thursday after a barrage of attacks by hackers threatened to...The New York Times From ACM News | December 3, 2010
When Oliver Kreylos, a computer scientist, heard about the capabilities of Microsoft's new Kinect gaming device, he couldn’t wait to get his hands on it. "I dropped...The New York Times From ACM News | November 22, 2010
The German software engineer who in September was the first to report that a computer worm was apparently designed to sabotage targets in Iran said Friday that...The New York Times From ACM News | November 22, 2010
Silicon Valley is awash in tales of the "PayPal Mafia," the tight-knit group of PayPal alumni who have helped one another start and finance a crop of new companies...The New York Times From ACM News | November 8, 2010
Steve Miller is justifiably proud of the manicured grounds around his stately stucco home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. So he was nonplussed last year when he discovered...The New York Times From ACM News | November 4, 2010
For $150 billion, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration could have sent astronauts back to the Moon. The Obama administration judged that too expensive...The New York Times From ACM News | November 2, 2010