Combining academic and industry representation, the NCWIT Pacesetters program works to increase the participation of girls and women in computing.Jill Ross, Elizabeth Litzler, J. McGrath Cohoon, Lucy Sanders From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2012
Not long ago, when desktops and laptops were the main computers we used every day, PC makers peddled what's known as the megahertz myth.Slate From ACM Opinion | March 16, 2012
Ray Ozzie, online collaboration pioneer and former Microsoft chief software architect, shared his thoughts on the startup climate, his tenure at Microsoft, the...Geekwire From ACM Opinion | March 15, 2012
On Monday, the Defense Department’s best-known geek announced that she was leaving the Pentagon for a job at Google. It was an unexpected move: Washington and Mountain...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 15, 2012
The games industry was a very different place 10 years ago. Still dominated by Japanese games and Japanese games machines, Microsoft's plans to launch its own dedicated...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | March 15, 2012
Every night, I get home from work, drop onto the couch and sit there surfing the Web or watching videos on my 3 1/2-inch iPhone screen. My big-screen HDTV sits...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2012
Sir Jonathan Ive, Jony to his friends, is arguably one of the world's most influential Londoners.The London Evening Standard From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2012
Andy Hertzfeld was ready to retire back in 2009, following a momentous 30-year plus career where he worked side by side with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to design...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2012
It's been an action-packed two years since Jeff Jaffe took over as the World Wide Web Consortium's chief executive, but more action is the order of the day at...CNET From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2012
Compared to the versions that are hacked together late at night under insane deadline pressure, the programming languages to come out of academia are failures.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2012
It's easy to mock the excess enthusiasm the tech community has for new Apple gadgets—Wow! Look, it’s a new computer! At the same time it's just as easy to see why...Webmonkey From ACM Opinion | March 7, 2012
It's a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., and there goes David Cheriton, navigating the Silicon Valley suburb's tony downtown on his bike.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 6, 2012
This week EFF released a new version its HTTPS Everywhere extension for the Firefox browser and debuted a beta version of the extension for Chrome. EFF frequently...The Electronic Frontier Foundation From ACM Opinion | March 2, 2012