Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore's Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it's held true in the decades since.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 25, 2013
A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2013
Microsoft's new head of research, Peter Lee, is tasked with helping the company invent the future.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2013
Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 17, 2013
Intel came to dominate computing by consistently beating others at packing transistors ever more densely onto chips for desktop computers and servers.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 3, 2013
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2013
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
Samsung Electronics is a company at the top of its game, having become the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer in the last year.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 20, 2012
Late last Friday, Google announced a jaw-dropping hire: Ray Kurzweil will join the company as a Director of Engineering. Has the world’s brainiest tech company"rapture...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 17, 2012
Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division, abruptly left the company on November 12, shortly after introducing the latest version of the company's...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 26, 2012
You can get a lot for $35 these days. It bought me what looks like a credit card-size James Bond gadget prototype but is actually a fully functional computer.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 6, 2012
At first glance, Thad Starner does not look out of place at Google. A pioneering researcher in the field of wearable computing, Starner is a big, charming man with...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2012
Compared to the versions that are hacked together late at night under insane deadline pressure, the programming languages to come out of academia are failures.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2012
2011 saw the personal computer continue to be marginalized. Although PCs are still the workhorse computing device in homes and offices, the most exciting innovations...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 29, 2011
Google and Microsoft don't share a stage often, being increasingly fierce competitors in areas such as Web search, mobile, and cloud computing. But the rivals...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 18, 2011
Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 14, 2011
Jack Dorsey is the creator and executive chairman of the popular communications network Twitter. In 2009, he cofounded another company, called Square, which lets...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 12, 2011
Peak performance doesn't equal sustained performance, and the NVIDIA GPUs in the Tianhe 1A are especially bad at the latter.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2010