Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has long relied on technology to help him connect with the outside world despite the degenerative motor neuron disease he has...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 18, 2013
The FBI had to rewrite the book on its domestic surveillance activities in the wake of last January’s landmark Supreme Court decision in United States v. Jones.Electronic Frontier Foundation From ACM Opinion | January 18, 2013
After months of inaction and even a warning from the Department of Homeland Security, Oracle has finally released a fix for yet another security vulnerability in...Forbes From ACM Opinion | January 16, 2013
Famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil joined Google last month to work on "some of the hardest problems in computer science," specifically machine learning and...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2013
I often wonder how General Billy Mitchell must have felt as he relentlessly advocated for the use of strategic airpower while surrounded by leadership who did not...Small Wars Journal From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2013
There are plenty of Meg Whitman doubters out there. Some say the former EBay chief executive officer doesn't have the requisite big company experience to run a...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2013
Yesterday we received the shocking and terrible news that on Friday in New York, Aaron Swartz, a gifted young man well known and admired by many in the MIT community...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | January 14, 2013
A couple weeks ago, an industry friend of mine told me that the office for Vice President Joe Biden was reaching out to so-called "game industry leaders."Gamasutra From ACM Opinion | January 14, 2013
The strange thing about the Internet is that it went from being something exotic to something mundane almost without us noticing it.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | January 14, 2013
I don't remember the first time I heard about Aaron Swartz. It probably was from reading Dave Winer's blog more than 10 years ago when I was an undergraduate at...ArsTechnica From ACM Opinion | January 14, 2013
The Internet is not so old. Its graybeards live still. Vint Cerf, author of the Internet Protocol, has been installed as Google's "chief Internet evangelist," a...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | January 14, 2013
The last time we heard from SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, he talked a great deal about a then-upcoming product strategy called HANA. The idea was to move all of SAP's...AllThingsD From ACM Opinion | January 14, 2013
When Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google this past fall, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood...Fortune From ACM Opinion | January 11, 2013
Nvidia grabbed a lot of the coveted media attention this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The world's biggest standalone graphics-chips company...VentureBeat From ACM Opinion | January 11, 2013
Click-click-click: This is what you hear when having a conversation with Stephen Hawking. No voice, no other sounds, no facial expressions.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 11, 2013
Our world is changing faster than ever and, in recent years, a number of transformative technologies have moved from science fiction and the research and development...BBC News From ACM Opinion | January 10, 2013
Ben Horowitz may have the skeleton key to the decimation—sorry, transformation—of our economic and political lives.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 10, 2013
Steve Mann built his first smart eyeglasses when he was still in high school and has continued to improve on his designs ever since—as a graduate student at MIT...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | January 9, 2013