This year the U.S. Congress is considering changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the primary law that governs cyber crime and fraud on the Internet...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 16, 2013
Online courses have the potential to dramatically transform Indian higher education by alleviating faculty shortages and delivering education on a scale and at...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 2, 2013
When my father was growing up, his father offered him 25 cents to memorize the complete list of U.S. presidents. "Number one, George Washington. Number two, John...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | July 25, 2013
In the early 2000s it was the height of geek fashion to run your own email server—then along came Gmail with two gigabytes of free storage and excellent spam filtering...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2013
The gadget blogs may work themselves into a frenzy over megapixels and processor speed. But if you want to know what really dazzles the masses, consider a feature...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2013
Which is more intrusive: security screening and metal detectors every few blocks, or a drone flying high above it taking video of every little thing you do?Scientific American From ACM Opinion | April 18, 2013
Okay, great: we can control our phones with speech recognition and our television sets with gesture recognition.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 26, 2012
More than a dozen science and engineering organizations worked with ScienceDebate.org to draft 14 top science questions to ask the two main presidential candidates...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | October 19, 2012
Innovation, economic growth, and climate change are just a few of the challenges and opportunities that face the U.S. They are also firmly linked to science.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2012
Mat Honan, the technology reporter who was digitally disemboweled this past weekend, has revealed exactly how he was so spectacularly owned. His case, a cascade...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2012
When Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S last year, the new phone looked just like the previous one. It had a better camera and a faster chip, but it could do only one...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 1, 2012
Fifty years after The Jetsons promised us a future of robot maids, flying cars, video phones and meals at the push of a button, it seems that reality may actually...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 29, 2012
High-performance computing developed at the national labs powers much of the innovation behind the most successful U.S. commercial firms. This expertise may also...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 9, 2012
A demonstration by experimenters at the Vienna University of Technology violates Heisenberg's original version of his uncertainty principle, but confirms a newer...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2012
The number of U.S. undergraduate degrees being awarded in most STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math) has risen steadily in recent years...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 25, 2012