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Jer Thorp: Data Artist, Question Farmer
Digital artist and designer Jer Thorp finds the art in data.
Solid State Drives Transform Data Centers
Enterprises increasingly are incorporating solid-state drive technologies into their data centers.
Are Schools Getting Enough Bang For Their Technology Buck?
Public schools in the United States have a lot to learn about integrating technology into education.
Collect Yourself Before You Forget Yourself
Lifelogging attempts to capture, interpret, and supplement memories.
Study: Women Just as Satisfied in It Jobs as Elsewhere
A new study suggests that preconceptions about women's dissatisfaction with IT industry jobs are unjustified.
D-Wave has helped bring quantum computing into the spotlight, but critics continue to question the company's performance claims.
Douglas Engelbart, 1925 – 2013
Douglas Engelbart, creator of the computer mouse, died last week at his home in Atherton, CA.
Indiana niversity Launches Data Capacitor Ii
Indiana University's new five-petabyte Data Capacitor "will accommodate our storage requirements for a while."
3-D printing has come of age. It promises to revolutionize a wide range of industries and profoundly change the way people buy and consume.
Keeping Computers Cool From the Inside
New techniques could cut the power required to avoid overheating.
Hacker spaces are spreading around the world, though some government funding is raising questions.
Cfp Conferees Debate Government Surveillance, Cyber-Offensives, Copyright Reform
Coverage of the 23rd Annual Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference, titled "Our Computers, Our Freedom: Can You Trust Anyone in the Digital Age?"
Tech Stars Get the Superhero Treatment
A new line of comic books tells the life stories of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and other leaders in high technology.
The market for e-signature software and services is poised for dramatic growth.
The Limitations Of Crowdsourcing: On The Hunt For The Boston Bombers
Crowdsourcing demonstrated some of its limitations after the Boston Marathon bombing.
Therapists and researchers are experimenting with robots to interact with children with autism; the technology, and the technique, could revolutionize the field.
Opening the Doors of Deception
IT managers may incorporate a variety of deceptive tactics into their protective strategies to fend off hackers.
How Can Computing Become More Accessible?
A growing number of tools and strategies are available to make computers and digital content accessible to people with disabilities.
Advances on multiple fronts are bringing big improvements to the way computers learn, increasing the accuracy of speech and vision systems.
Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus
The possibility of a new $200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
ACM Honors Computing Innovators
ACM's awards celebrate achievements in networks, information retrieval, multi-agent systems, computer science education, versatile compiler technologies, and more.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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