With Paul Otellini heading in May to the nearest 18-hole course, speculation is rampant about who will replace him.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | November 21, 2012
The NCSA Blue Waters system is one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but it won't appear on the TOP500 list—nor will it be taking part in the HPC Challenge...HPCwire From ACM News | November 19, 2012
Since 1978, the Chinese economy has seen phenomenal growth. While that’s not in dispute, the reason why China has managed to grow so fast and whether it can maintain...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 19, 2012
James Dyson leaps out of his chair like a restless child and picks up a big yellow-and-gray vacuum—one of several Dyson contraptions congregated around the podium...Wired From ACM Opinion | November 19, 2012
Having an extramarital affair in 2012 is not an easy task if you’re the chief of the world’s most renowned spy agency.Slate From ACM Opinion | November 16, 2012
Tech has always played a prominent role in the Bond franchise; it's a key element of the plot formula: Bond opens with a chase scene, the core mission is revealed...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 16, 2012
Companies like Apple and Samsung are the public face of the smartphone and tablet boom, but they all rely on ARM, the British company that licenses the energy-efficient...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 9, 2012
When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...VentureBeat From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012
In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who powered Barack Obama's campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West...Time From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2012
Congratulations, Barack Obama: You have prevailed in the nerdiest election in the history of the American Republic.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2012
For decades scientists have backed the idea of sending robots to collect Martian rocks and return them to Earth, a project that should be possible well before humans...NBC News From ACM Opinion | November 5, 2012
There's a joke running around about social media: Facebook is how you want people to see you, Twitter is how you see yourself; Tumblr is—"Hey look! Funny cat picture...BBC News From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2012
If you were asked to name the most important innovation in transportation over the last 200 years, you might say the combustion engine, air travel, Henry Ford’s...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2012
This week, Apple fired Scott Forstall, its longtime chief of mobile software. In the wake of the shake-up—which reportedly had to do with Forstall's refusal to for...Slate From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2012
If there was any doubt left that Tumblr is trying to become more of a mainstream media entity, albeit with its own odd twist, it was removed recently when the service...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2012
It wasn't very easy to get my hands on a Zune. After Microsoft's long-pitied music player wonSlate's Reader Takeover poll—in which I'd promised to reassess an overlooked...Slate From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2012
The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2012