"The New Digital Age" is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 3, 2013
If you were going to look for ground zero in the fight against a rapidly consolidating telecom and cable industry, you might end up on the fifth floor of the Benjamin...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2013
The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
It might sound audacious to think that Microsoft, the arbiter of uncool, was at the forefront of design a few years ago. But it was.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2013
Eight years of work, thousands of researchers around the world, $1 billion spent—and finally it was done.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2013
Dr. Ivan Sutherland is the 2012 winner of the Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology. The award, created by Dr. Kazuo Inamori, founder of not one but two major Japanese...Time From ACM Opinion | April 15, 2013
You are the founder and C.E.O. of Zynga, a company responsible for addictive games like FarmVille and the forthcoming Draw Something 2. You know, every time I see...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 8, 2013
Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries most responsible for the concepts which have propelled personal computing forward...Time From ACM Opinion | April 3, 2013
As a Dartmouth student in the early 1970s, William McDonough went, somewhat casually, to hear a lecture by a visiting celebrity. Mr. McDonough had little idea beforehand...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 21, 2013
The settlement last week between a group of state attorneys general and Google over the company’s improper data collection from home wireless networks shows the...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2013
Where do you go when you're arguably history’s most famous video game designer in a medium that's witnessed explosive growth since its halcyon days?Time From ACM Opinion | March 11, 2013
Video games, as their name suggests, combine the ancient human practice of formal play with moving pictures, a younger form.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2013
The Obama administration is planning a multiyear research effort to produce an "activity map" that would show in unprecedented detail the workings of the human,...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 26, 2013
Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, said on Thursday that he would resign effective mid-February.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 1, 2013