"Cars 2" director John Lasseter talked with The Wall Street Journal in his office at the Emeryville headquarters of Pixar Animation Studios, where he is chief...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2011
In justifying U.S. involvement in Libya, the Obama administration cited the "responsibility to protect" citizens of other countries when their governments engage...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2011
There aren’t many technology companies around who can claim to be 100 years old. You're probably hearing that a lot as media outlets report on the anniversary...AllThingsD From ACM Opinion | June 17, 2011
Limor Fried discusses the future of the open source hardware movement, Facebook’s decision to open source its new data center, and being featured on the cover of...Leah Hoffmann From ACM News | May 25, 2011
Steve Furber, designer of the seminal BBC Microcomputer System and the widely used ARM microprocessor, reflects on his career.Jason Fitzpatrick From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 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
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 29, 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
The goal of the European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI) is to help effect the migration from petascale to exascale systems over the next 10 years by bringing...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2011
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
In the personal-computer industry, where things change fast, one fact has been a constant for years: There are two major, mainstream operating systems for consumers...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 16, 2010
Behind the fly-off-the-shelf popularity of products like Apple's iPad and iPhone are hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs—mostly overseas. Is it possible...CNET From ACM News | December 6, 2010
Imagine a CPU designed to issue and execute up to seven instructions per clock cycle, with a clock rate 10 times faster than the reigning supercomputer. This is...Mark Smotherman, Dag Spicer From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2010
The origins of our Webified age were hardly auspicious. Two decades ago, Tim Berners-Lee, a British software programmer at the CERN physics-research laboratory...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 15, 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