Cisco Systems designs, makes, and sells the routers, switches, and other networking equipment with which businesses connect their computers, manage data centers...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 14, 2016
Last week, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and other cutting-edge companies, took a surprising question at the Code Conference, a technology...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 13, 2016
I took a vacation last month. I traveled some. I read a lot. And I refurbished an old late 2008 MacBook Pro, one of the original aluminum unibody models.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | June 8, 2016
America's nuclear arsenal depends on a surprising relic of the 1970s that few of us may recall: the humble floppy disk.
The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | May 31, 2016
American airport security has never been something to look forward to, but in the past few weeks, it's attained new levels of misery.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 27, 2016
Artificial intelligence—what's the worst that can happen? For Roman Yampolskiy, a computer scientist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, the sky’s the...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | May 25, 2016
One of humanity’s most significant events will be the discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in universe. Back in the 1980s, a group of astronomers involved in...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 23, 2016
Unforeseen problems can result from the absence of impartial independent evaluations.Rebecca T. Mercuri, Peter G. Neumann From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2016
The humanities are kaput. Sorry, liberal arts cap-and-gowners. You blew it. In a software-run world, what's wanted are more engineers.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 23, 2016
In "The Martian," Matt Damon plays a NASA astronaut who's been stranded on Mars and has to figure out how to survive until the space agency can devise a daring...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2016
As a boy growing up in Denmark, Eske Willerslev could not wait to leave Gentofte, his suburban hometown. As soon as he was old enough, he would strike out for the...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2016
Three researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, explain the circumstances of Hitomi's tragic accident and express their hopes...SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2016
My instinct upon leaping into id Software's hyper-gruesome Doom, a gonzo shooter out May 13 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, is to dawdle.Time From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2016
At Harvard today, an invitation-only group of about 150 scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, met to discuss if and how to construct from scratch an entire human...Cosmos Magazine From ACM Opinion | May 13, 2016