When Steve Jobs was running Apple, he was known to call journalists to either pat them on the back for a recent article or, more often than not, explain how they...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 11, 2014
For the last half-century we've had a popular notion that our intellectual culture is sundered in two—the literary and the scientific.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 25, 2014
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 4, 2014
Thanks to advances in technology, we may soon revisit a question raised four centuries ago: Are there things we should try not to know?The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 12, 2014
Like many people in this modern world, I struggle with the tension between the conveniences offered by the latest technology and the loss of privacy that comes...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 8, 2014
The best way to think about Aereo, the company at the center of this week's Supreme Court battle over the future of computing, is as an example of legal performance...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2014
The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2014
Danah Boyd is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, a research assistant professor in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, and a fellow...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 24, 2014
For years, techies have argued that getting an extra monitor or two for your desktop computer is an especially effective way to increase personal productivity.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 20, 2014
It seems as if every week there's a news story about someone committing a crime and confessing to it on Facebook, bragging about it on Twitter or sharing photos...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2014
Five years ago, the DJI Phantom 2 Vision would have seemed like a science fiction film prop or a piece of surveillance hardware flown only by the sexiest of superspies...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2014
The first thing Bruce Levy did upon recent entry into Yankee Stadium while accompanied by his in-laws and teenage son was to purchase a program in the area of the...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2013
If you were going to look for ground zero in the fight against a rapidly consolidating telecom and cable industry, you might end up on the fifth floor of the Benjamin...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2013