Why aren't you letting Watson speak for himself today?
Watson is trained to answer questions for Jeopardy! It's not an interactive dialogue system, so it can't...Time From ACM News | March 4, 2011
Soon after Paul Buchheit joined Google in 1999, he coined the phrase "Don't be evil," which along with profit and loss, remains the yardstick by which Google...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | March 1, 2011
I’ve been a consumer technology critic for over 10 years. During that time, hate mail has been part of my job every day.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | February 18, 2011
If IBM's Watson machine defeats people on TV's Jeopardy this week, does that mean that computers are smarter than humans? Maybe not. But the performance could...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 15, 2011
To most, a wine cellar is just a cool place to keep some vintage vino. For Vint Cerf, the revered former Stanford engineering professor and graduate of the university...The Stanford News Service From ACM Opinion | February 14, 2011
Before Egypt turned off the Internet, the country had received increasingly high marks from leading analysis firms as a promising offshore outsourcing destination...Egypt's rapid descent into chaos contrasts with what analysts said just before it happened. From ACM News | February 2, 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
With the amount of disk space available to the modern programmer, and the lack of parental supervision in most...George V. Neville-Neil From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011
Revisiting the need to educate professionals to defend against malware in its various guises.George Ledin From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011
Cyberterrorism is a concept that appears recurrently in contemporary media. This coverage is particularly interesting...Maura Conway From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011
While the secret for Apple's success seems patently obvious to most&meash;as obvious as the form and function of the iPhone 4—a more subtle reason is the company's...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2011
There is a growing sentiment among security researchers that the programmers behind the Stuxnet attack may not have been the super-elite cadre of developers that...Threat Post From ACM Opinion | January 19, 2011
Wolfram Research, a software company with deep mathematical and scientific expertise, is expanding to the broad education market with a range of mobile apps.CNET From ACM News | January 18, 2011
India's design industry is facing a "quality gap" with regard to talent, says Rahul Arya of Cadence Design Systems Inc. in Bangalore, India. The Hindu From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2011
India's design industry is facing a "quality gap" with regard to talent, says Rahul Arya of Cadence Design Systems Inc. in Bangalore, India. The Hindu From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2011
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts...InfoWorld From ACM News | January 7, 2011