In the category "What Do You Know?," for $1 million: This four-year-old upstart the size of a small R.V. has digested 200 million pages of data about everything...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2011
In January 1986, Basit and Amjad Alvi, sibling programmers living near the main train station in Lahore, Pakistan, wrote a piece of code to safeguard the latest...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2011
With the amount of disk space available to the modern programmer, and the lack of parental supervision in most...George V. Neville-Neil From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011
While the secret for Apple's success seems patently obvious to most&meash;as obvious as the form and function of the iPhone 4—a more subtle reason is the company's...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2011
At the aptly named Tiny Thai restaurant here, a small table, about two and a half feet square, was jammed with a teapot, two plates of curry, a bowl of soup,...The New York Times From ACM News | January 20, 2011
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.CNET From ACM Opinion | December 30, 2010
Chipmaker Intel has been investigating the issue of scaling the number of cores in chips through its Terascale Computing Research Program, which has so far yielded...ZDNet From ACM News | December 29, 2010
A draft solution to the so-called "P versus NP" problem generated excitement in 2010; will 2011 bring a correct proof?New Scientist From ACM Opinion | December 28, 2010
You want to know how to get my attention?" Jason Kalich asked the audience rhetorically. "First off, don't bring me a good...Phillip G. Armour From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2011
I recently wrote a white paper entitled “Dragons, Tigers, Pearls, and Yellowcake” in which I proposed four alternative scenarios for the Stuxnet worm other than...Forbes From ACM Opinion | December 17, 2010
A new series on ACM's Ubiquity seeks to answer the question: 'What is computation?' In this opening article, Ubiquity's editor-in-chief Peter J. Denning and co-author...Peter J. Denning and Peter Wegner From ACM Opinion | December 14, 2010
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 24, 2010
While it is true that "programmers aren't English majors," there are many days that I wish they were, or that...George V. Neville-Neil From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2010
The Intel researcher is designing computers that can recognize gestures and objects to better bridge the virtual and real worlds.Businessweek From ACM Opinion | November 23, 2010
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