Kentaro Toyama calls himself "a recovering technoholic"—someone who once was "addicted to a technological way of solving problems."Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 15, 2015
Philosopher Nick Bostrom says major tech companies are listening to his warnings about artificial intelligence.MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2015
The holy grail of artificial intelligence—creating software that comes close to mimicking human intelligence—remains far off. But 2014 saw major strides in machine...Technology Review From ACM News | December 30, 2014
A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 15, 2014
Peter Thiel has been behind some prominent technologies: he cofounded PayPal and was an early investor in such companies as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tesla Motors...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 19, 2014
Every day our DNA breaks a little. Special enzymes keep our genome intact while we're alive, but after death, once the oxygen runs out, there is no more repair.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 29, 2014
In the four years since the car service Uber launched, it has been beset by criticism from myriad groups, including city officials annoyed by its sometimes cavalier...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 27, 2014
More than a year after ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden began leaking details of the agency's electronic surveillance programs, questions remain...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2014
Genome scientist and entrepreneur J. Craig Venter is best known for being the first person to sequence his own genome, back in 2001.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 31, 2014
As an academic, Cynthia Breazeal pioneered research into social interaction between humans and robots, developing Kismet, a robot that used facial expressions in...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2014
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2014
In the eight years since Amazon.com rolled out its cloud-computing business, Amazon Web Services, this has grown from a side project that took advantage of the...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 24, 2014
Three computer bugs this year exposed passwords, e-mails, financial data, and other kinds of sensitive information connected to potentially billions of people.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2014
Earlier this week the U.S. Department of Justice indicted five Chinese military officers for industrial espionage, accusing them of leading attacks on the computers...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 23, 2014
Artificial intelligence is guided by the far-off goal of having software match humans at important tasks.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround in which he introduced three laws that governed the behaviour of robots...Technology Review From ACM News | May 16, 2014