More than a week after his mysterious disappearance in Egypt, Google executive and political activist Wael Ghonim will be released from government detention on...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 7, 2011
The world needs cyber war "Rules of Engagement" to cope with potentially devastating cyber weapons, Russian and US experts will tell world leaders at a security...BBC News From ACM News | February 4, 2011
Like a prairie with no more vacant land to homestead or a hip area code with no more cellphone numbers, the pool of available numeric internet addresses has been...Wired From ACM News | February 4, 2011
The FIFA rule-making panel will study the results from 10 different goal-line technology systems being tested to help referees make decisions.The Associated Press From ACM News | February 4, 2011
Computer science pioneer Donald Knuth has released the "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A, The Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1," the first part of volume...PC World From ACM TechNews | February 3, 2011
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will invest $40 million on cybersecurity research areas in fiscal 2011 in support of the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative...Information Week From ACM TechNews | February 3, 2011
NIST has issued two new draft documents on cloud computing for public comment and set up a new NIST Cloud Computing Collaboration site to enable two-way communication...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | February 2, 2011
Tel Aviv University researchers are developing a mathematical model to help new urban bike-sharing systems operate more efficiently. Bike-sharing systems have...American Friends of Tel Aviv University From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2011
Cyber Foundations is a cybersecurity competition for high school students launched by the U.S. Cyber Challenge and the SANS Institute. The contest will help identify...Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2011
University of Minnesota researchers have found that analyzing social networks can provide insight on aspects of social interactions, including the emergence or...University of Minnesota News From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2011
The Obama administration recently launched the Startup America initiative, which will involve government agencies and private-sector programs to train, mentor,...Washington Business Journal From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2011
Before Egypt turned off the Internet, the country had received increasingly high marks from leading analysis firms as a promising offshore outsourcing destination...Egypt's rapid descent into chaos contrasts with what analysts said just before it happened. From ACM News | February 2, 2011
The official government cybersecurity standards for the electric power grid fall far short of even the most basic security standards observed by noncritical industries...Wired From ACM News | February 2, 2011
Google has launched the latest salvo in an effort to overcome internet blackouts in Egypt during anti-government protests there.CNN From ACM News | February 1, 2011
In another era, China’s leaders might have been content to let discussion of the protests in Egypt float around among private citizens, then fizzle out.The New York Times From ACM News | February 1, 2011
The European Union recently launched the ABC4Trust project, which will use encryption technology developed by IBM Research, academic institutions, Microsoft, and...eWeek Europe From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2011
Computing in general is increasingly applying the old engineering dictum, divide and conquer. Look at the engines behind cloud computing—vast, distributed armies...The New York Times From ACM News | January 31, 2011
Crowdsourcing is based on a simple but powerful concept: Virtually anyone has the potential to plug in valuable information.Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011