According to the old saying, you learn more from a failure than a success. Well, if that's the case, the consumer electronics industry ought to have a master's...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 29, 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
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 24, 2010
What kind of discipline is computer science? I thought it was a science when I received my bachelor's degree. I believed its subdiscipline software engineering...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 12, 2010
Palo Alto Research Center research fellow David Biegelsen, who has been at Xerox's legendary R&D lab from the beginning, reflected on being at the forefront of...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 24, 2010
The Internet Age is upon us. But rather than circulating online, the 23rd Decennial Census stuck with the tried-and-true, and flooded the U.S. Postal Service March...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 26, 2010
Forty years ago—on December 5, 1969—the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) connected four computer network nodes at the University...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | December 8, 2009