In this era of Big Data, there is little that cannot be tracked in our online lives—or even in our offline lives. Consider one new Silicon Valley venture, called...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 26, 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
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
HTML5, the next version of the markup language used to build Web pages, has attracted attention for its ability to show video inside a Web browser without using...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 22, 2010