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
For years now, Jeff Han has been working on large-screen multitouch displays. Han and his company, Perceptive Pixel, are best known for creating the giant touch...AllThingsD From ACM News | December 14, 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
In the opening moments of the new Web video "The Story of Electronics," I found myself nodding in recognition as host Annie Leonard held up a tangled mess of...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | November 30, 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
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
Among the scores of fabless chip companies and product design houses in Silicon Valley, Intel is a standout. It's an American high-tech company that not only...CNET From ACM News | November 5, 2010
The director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has seen the future of supercomputing and it can be summed up in three letters: GPU.CNET From ACM News | November 2, 2010
Five years ago, having only recently arrived at the company, I wrote The Internet Services Disruption in order to kick off a major change management process across...ozzie.net From ACM Opinion | October 25, 2010
Everything in our three-dimensional world has a width, length and height. That was what we thought, at least. But this picture overlooks a whole class of materials...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | October 6, 2010
In February 2008, a pair of suicide bombers struck the Israeli town of Dimona. One of the attackers detonated his explosive vest, killing an Israeli, and injuring...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 13, 2010
Should researchers focus on designing new network architectures or improving the current Internet?Jennifer Rexford, Constantine Dovrolis From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2010
New York University computer science professor Dennis Shasha thinks the future of computing lies in a synthesis with nature. He believes the next big leap in computing...Guardian From ACM TechNews | August 23, 2010
Another day, another envelope-pushing design from Apple intended to make us rethink the way we interact with our computers. Welcome to the Magic Trackpad.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2010
The growing role of artificial agents necessitates modifying legal frameworks to better address human interests.Samir Chopra From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2010
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon...Slate From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2010
Technological change results in changes in expectations, in this case affecting the workplace.Jason Borenstein From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2010
Parallel computation is making a comeback after a quarter century of neglect. Past research can be put to quick use today.Peter J. Denning, Jack B. Dennis From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2010