Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has long relied on technology to help him connect with the outside world despite the degenerative motor neuron disease he has...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 18, 2013
Okay, great: we can control our phones with speech recognition and our television sets with gesture recognition.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 26, 2012
"Nothing quite like it exists yet, but we have begun building it," Henry Markram wrote in the June 2012 issue of Scientific American. He was referring to a "fantastic...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 16, 2012
Bill Foster, member-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives, wants more scientists in Congress who can bring to bear an analytical mind-set to lawmaking.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 14, 2012
More than a dozen science and engineering organizations worked with ScienceDebate.org to draft 14 top science questions to ask the two main presidential candidates...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | October 19, 2012
Innovation, economic growth, and climate change are just a few of the challenges and opportunities that face the U.S. They are also firmly linked to science.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2012
Mat Honan, the technology reporter who was digitally disemboweled this past weekend, has revealed exactly how he was so spectacularly owned. His case, a cascade...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2012
When Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S last year, the new phone looked just like the previous one. It had a better camera and a faster chip, but it could do only one...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 1, 2012
Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | May 15, 2012
Fifty years after The Jetsons promised us a future of robot maids, flying cars, video phones and meals at the push of a button, it seems that reality may actually...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 29, 2012
High-performance computing developed at the national labs powers much of the innovation behind the most successful U.S. commercial firms. This expertise may also...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 9, 2012
A demonstration by experimenters at the Vienna University of Technology violates Heisenberg's original version of his uncertainty principle, but confirms a newer...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2012
Digital innovators Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Danny Hillis, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, talk with Scientific American Executive Editor...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2012
The number of U.S. undergraduate degrees being awarded in most STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math) has risen steadily in recent years...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 25, 2012
Siri, a program in the latest Apple iPhone that can carry out a wide spectrum of vocal commands without requiring training or special syntax from the user, stands...Scientific American From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2012
Last October the well-known hacking group Chaos Computer Club revealed that the German state police had been monitoring the computers of ordinary citizens using...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 11, 2012
In Google Maps, the distance-measuring tool offers a choice of three unit systems: Metric, English or "I’m Feeling Geeky." If you click the third one, you’re...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 1, 2011