These days Germany is known for being many things: a leader in clean technology, a manufacturing powerhouse, Europe's foreign policy center.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 14, 2014
When I was 12, I invented a superhero named Boy Genius, a guy my age who awakens one morning with access to 100 percent of his brain power.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 22, 2014
For the last half-century we've had a popular notion that our intellectual culture is sundered in two—the literary and the scientific.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 25, 2014
For one weekend every year, thousands of the world’s best—or worst, depending on your point of view—hackers meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, for Defcon.Time From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2014
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 4, 2014
The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2014
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2014
In "On What We Can Not Do," a short and pungent essay published a few years ago, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben outlined two ways in which power operates...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
The best way to think about Aereo, the company at the center of this week's Supreme Court battle over the future of computing, is as an example of legal performance...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2014
The Constitution gives Congress the power to grant inventors a temporary monopoly over their creations to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2014
In Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita," the protagonist, a writer, burns a manuscript in a moment of despair, only to find out later from the Devil...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 18, 2014
To avoid surveillance, the first four Americans to visit Edward Snowden in Moscow carried no cell phones or laptops.Time From ACM Opinion | December 12, 2013
Consumer trust is a vital currency for every big Internet company, which helps to explain why the giants of Silicon Valley have gone to great lengths in recent...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 28, 2013
The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said in an interview that to prevent terrorist attacks he saw no effective alternative to...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 17, 2013
Craig Mundie is Microsoft's senior advisor to the CEO, spending his time on big-picture stuff such as (according to his bio) "key strategic projects within the...Time From ACM Opinion | October 15, 2013