The U.S. technology industry added 7,100 jobs in November, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data analyzed by the TechServe Alliance. The increase raises...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | December 6, 2011
Although Apple has pioneered the mainstream multitouch user interface (UI), Microsoft could provide the next major UI breakthrough by combining voice, touch, and...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2011
In an interview, Frederico Faggin, who led the design and development of the first microprocessor in 1970, says he sees a future in which quantum and cognitive...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | December 1, 2011
The annual H-1B cap has been reached two months ahead of last year's pace, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Nov. 23. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2011
The eventual replacement of humans by robots and computers in enough jobs will eventually transform the economic landscape, and this process has already begun,...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2011
Congressional action is needed to overhaul high-skill immigration policy, President Obama said during a meeting of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | October 13, 2011
Despite a higher-than-normal rate of unemployment and a weak economy, salaries for engineers are on the upswing. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2011
Many information technology leaders say the importance of a single type of device, such as the computer, tablet, or smartphone, is waning as more data moves to...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2011
LexisNexis will open source its HPCC Systems supercomputing platform and offer developers an alternative to the Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | June 20, 2011
In November 2008, two months after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and Hewlett-Packard announced plans to lay off some 25,000 workers, IT employment reached...Computerworld From ACM News | May 18, 2011
People who have found items in the aftermath of the tornadoes that recently ripped through the southeastern United States are using Facebook to find the items'...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | May 3, 2011
The absence of Internet and telephone service at Osama bin Laden's $1 million hiding place helped tip off intelligence experts that the Al Qaeda leader was indeed...Computerworld From ACM News | May 2, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned Monday whether they should side with Microsoft and weaken the legal standard needed to invalidate a patent, with some justices...Computerworld From ACM News | April 19, 2011
An Iranian military commander Saturday accused the German electronics giant Siemens with helping U.S. and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his...Computerworld From ACM News | April 18, 2011
A recent panel discussion at the Collaborate 11 Oracle user conference concluded that mentors and sponsors are crucial to helping women advance their careers in...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 18, 2011
Computer science enrollments increased for the third consecutive year at Ph.D.-granting institutions, are up 10 percent from a year ago, but are still below the...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2011
As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions, it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak...Computerworld From ACM News | April 12, 2011
Laptop computers and other digital devices carried into the U.S. may be seized from travelers without a warrant and sent to a secondary site for forensic inspection...Computerworld From ACM News | April 8, 2011
A cyberwar scenario hypothesized by former U.S. State Department diplomat Christopher Bronk in a report published in the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Studies paints...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2011
As real-time and batch analytics evolve using big data processing engines such as Hadoop, corporations will be able to track our activities, habits, and locations...Computerworld From ACM News | March 25, 2011