The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.The New York Times From ACM News | January 3, 2013
A long time ago, my colleagues and I became part of a great adventure, teamed with a small band of scientists and technologists in the U.S. and elsewhere.Google From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2013
Unwanted telemarketing calls, trademarked for interrupting dinners across the nation, have become such a nuisance over the years that the Federal Trade Commission...NPR From ACM Careers | January 2, 2013
Whether they're in our computers, cell phones, or cars, the only time we think about batteries is when they're almost dead and we need to find some place to charge...Slate From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2013
In 1997, when Massachusetts began making health records of state employees available to medical researchers, the government removed patients' names, addresses,...Simons Foundation From ACM News | January 2, 2013
Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day?niversity of California News Center From ACM News | December 28, 2012
A Pittsburgh jury found that hard drive control chips made by Marvell Semiconductor infringe two patents owned by Carnegie Mellon University.ArsTechnica From ACM News | December 28, 2012
Someday, quantum computers may be able to solve complex optimization problems, quickly mine huge data sets, simulate the kind of physics experiments that currently...Simons Science News From ACM News | December 28, 2012
University of Texas Arlington researchers are working to minimize the heat generated by silicon chips, and will then develop nano-windows that allow the heat to...niversity of Texas at Arlington From ACM TechNews | December 27, 2012
University of Texas at Austin researchers are using first-principles-based, atomic-level computer simulations to improve the efficiency of fuel cells. Texas Advanced Computing Center From ACM TechNews | December 27, 2012
Microsoft researchers have developed CLEO, a cloud-based global positioning system that collects only a few milliseconds of the most important information from...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 26, 2012
The U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory has installed and tested in Chile the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, the most elaborate ground-based...European Southern Observatory From ACM TechNews | December 26, 2012
As Electronic Arts prepared to market Medal of Honor Warfighter, the latest version of its top-selling video game released in October, it created a Web site that...The New York Times From ACM News | December 26, 2012
In a world where computers are increasingly powerful and are concealed within ever more glossy slabs of aluminum, the Raspberry Pi offers surprising proof for the...CNN From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2012
If China's ultimate aim in the sphere of technology is to become completely self-sufficient, it is well on the way to achieving this ambitious goal.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2012
"Big Data" hasn't made any of the words-of-the-year lists I've seen so far. That's probably because it didn't get the wide public exposure given to items like "...NPR From ACM Opinion | December 21, 2012
For seven years, a mini-fridge-sized instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft reliably investigated weather patterns swirling around Saturn; the hydrocarbon...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 21, 2012