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ACM Turing Award Honors Bob Metcalfe for Ethernet
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention… From ACM CareersAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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The Cloud Industry Needs Aereo to Win. But Consumers Need Something Better.
The best way to think about Aereo, the company at the center of this week's Supreme Court battle over the future of computing, is as an example of legal performance...
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Russia Displays a New Military Prowess in kraine's East
Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Russia of behaving in a "19th-century fashion" because of its annexation of Crimea.
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Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow
I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
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Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines
They came in through the Chinese takeout menu.
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If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality
The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.
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Search For Lost Jet Is Complicated By Geopolitics and Rivalries
The frantic hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been, in one way, a nearly miraculous display of international collaboration: 26 nations, many of them rivals...
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Consortium Wants Standards For 'internet of Things'
Attention: Internet of Things. For better or worse, big boys are in the room.
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College Basketball Data Aplenty for Those Who Can Afford It
When Butler fell a precious few inches short of winning a national championship in 2010, its players took the court during that season believing they were the most...
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N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat
American officials have long considered Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, a security threat, blocking it from business deals in the United States for...
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Revelations of N.s.a. Spying Cost .s. Tech Companies
Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil.
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Ticket Pricing Puts 'lion King' Atop Broadway's Circle of Life
How did "The Lion King" turn around its once-shaky fortunes and become the top-grossing show on Broadway in 2013, an unprecedented feat for long-running musicals...
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.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost
The uncertainties surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s disappearance are enormous, but naval strategists have been unraveling lost-at-sea mysteries as far...
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N.s.a. Director Says Snowden Leaks Hamper Efforts Against Cyberattacks
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...
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The Mammoth Cometh
The first time Ben Novak saw a passenger pigeon, he fell to his knees and remained in that position, speechless, for 20 minutes.
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Syria War Stirs New .S. Debate on Cyberattacks
Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and theNational Security Agency developed a battle plan that featured...
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Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role
Q. What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?
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At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They're Watching You
Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior, courtesy of 171 recently...
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Liquid-Cooled Supercomputers, to Trim the Power Bill
Submerging supercomputers and servers in oil or other liquids to cool them off might offer a way to reduce their massive energy consumption.
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