Famed science-fiction writer Fredric Brown (1906–1972) delighted in creating the shortest of short stories. "Answer," published in 1954, encapsulated a prescient...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2015
Given the amount of mobile phone traffic that cell phone towers transmit, it is no wonder law enforcement agencies target these devices as a rich source of data...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 25, 2015
Every decade or so since the first cellular networks appeared the companies that make mobile devices and the networks linking them have worked out new requirements...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 23, 2015
In their new book, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, authors Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock and Rachel Jones chronicle...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | April 17, 2015
Data science is not entirely new to Washington, D.C.—nor is DJ Patil, who was recently named as the U.S.'s first chief data scientist.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2015
Last November in the town of Wuzhen, China hosted its first large international summit on Internet governance and cybersecurity.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2015
Machine learning—an area of AI focusing on systems that "learn" from data in order to navigate future similar scenarios—is one of the ways we’ve managed to give...Scientific American From ACM News | December 5, 2014
This summer the insurgent group ISIS captured the Iraqi city of Mosul—and along with it, three army divisions' worth of U.S.-supplied equipment from the Iraqi army...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2014
We’ve all done it: We’re at an event, we take a bunch of photos with our phones, we take a selfie and maybe one with a friend, we post all the images online,...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 19, 2014
A few months ago I went to Cambridge, Mass. to check in with the Event Horizon Telescope crew and found Shep Doeleman, the project leader, fresh off the completion...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 11, 2014
Is Big Data going to revolutionize science and help us make a better world? Not based on what it's done so far.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 10, 2014
We've all seen those movies where someone goes back in time and tries to change something (the classic "Grandfather Paradox": what happens if you go back in time...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2014
As any avid Star Trek fan can tell you, the eccentric physicist Zefram Cochrane invented the warp-drive engine in the year 2063.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | April 28, 2014