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What Is Artificial Intelligence?
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...
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Space Stasis
What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation.
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Beware the Cyber War Boomerang?
Stuxnet, most sophisticated cyber weapon ever developed, could turn on vulnerable U.S. infrastructure.
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The Purpose of Science Fiction
How it teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology.
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25 Years of Digital Vandalism
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...
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Forest For the Trees
With the amount of disk space available to the modern programmer, and the lack of parental supervision in most...
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Apple: Disrupt or Perish
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...
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Bending and Stretching Classroom Lessons to Make Math Inspire
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,...
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Android Programming's ps and Downs
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.
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Intel: Why a 1,000-Core Chip Is Feasible
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...
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2011 Preview: Million-Dollar Mathematics Problem
A draft solution to the so-called "P versus NP" problem generated excitement in 2010; will 2011 bring a correct proof?
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Reflections on the Toyota Debacle
A look in the rearview mirror reveals system and process blind spots.
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Don't Bring Me a Good Idea
You want to know how to get my attention?" Jason Kalich asked the audience rhetorically. "First off, don't bring me a good...
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Stuxnet's Finnish-Chinese Connection
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...
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biquity Symposium: 'what Is Computation?'
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...
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"this Paper Should Not Have Been Published"
Scientists see fatal flaws in the NASA study of arsenic-based life.
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Long Live the Web: A Call For Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
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.
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Literate Coding
While it is true that "programmers aren't English majors," there are many days that I wish they were, or that...
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Beverly Harrison's Supersmart Computers
The Intel researcher is designing computers that can recognize gestures and objects to better bridge the virtual and real worlds.
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