Information technology is revolutionizing products. Once composed solely of mechanical and electrical parts, products have become complex systems that combine hardware...Harvard Business Review From ACM Opinion | December 3, 2014
When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 1, 2014
Six months ago, Chinese Internet-search giant Baidu signaled its ambitions to innovate by opening an artificial-intelligence center in Silicon Valley, in Google's...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | November 21, 2014
Wouldn't the world be a happier place if 90 per cent of the people with jobs put their feet up instead and left the robots to do the work?FT Magazine From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2014
University of California, Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg is establishing a research center that will focus on developing surgical robots.The New York Times From ACM TechNews | October 29, 2014
A few months ago I made the trek to the sylvan campus of the IBM research labs in Yorktown Heights, New York, to catch an early glimpse of the fast-arriving, long...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 27, 2014
William Gibson lives in an overwhelmingly green suburb with old-money roots south of Vancouver's downtown, and it is in this suburb that I am currently wandering...GQ Magazine From ACM Opinion | October 24, 2014
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2014
In an interview, satellite radio pioneer and futurist Martine Rothblatt says she believes there is little doubt humans will eventually invent ways to create virtual...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2014
Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 20, 2014
At the height of summer, when London was baking in unseasonable heat, I made an ill-fated trip to the Serpentine lido in central London.BBC News From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2014