Over the last 20 years, the technology industry has become the most powerful industry in the world, boasting seven of the 20 most profitable companies.
The Atlantic From ACM Careers | May 24, 2017
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | May 23, 2017
The tendency for people to be repelled by increasingly humanoid and human-like robots may extend to chatbots and digital assistants as well.
The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2017
Remember when Luke's running the trench in the Death Star, and he's about to fire his fateful shot, and at the last minute he decides to turn off the targeting...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 13, 2017
Thomas Jefferson is known for a lot of things—writing the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, owning hundreds of slaves despite believing...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 3, 2017
George Boole is often described as a mathematician, but he saw himself as a philosopher, following in the footsteps of Aristotle.
The Atlantic From ACM News | March 21, 2017
The telescope offers one of the most seductive suggestions a technological object can carry: the idea that humans might pick up a thing, peer into it, and finally...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 2, 2017
Stanford University professor Tom Mullaney believes computers make Chinese far more advantageous than typing English via a QWERTY keyboard.The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2016
When mark zuckerberg posted a picture of himself on Facebook in June, a sharp-eyed observer spotted a piece of tape covering his laptop’s camera.The Atlantic From ACM News | October 11, 2016
To prepare for the possibility that it will one day deploy swarms of uncrewed drone submarines, the U.S. Navy is developing a system that will allow the global...The Atlantic From ACM News | June 13, 2016
In a Congress where lawmakers have trouble performing even the most basic functions of the legislative branch—funding the government or approving judicial nominees...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 7, 2016
The allure of building superior poker-playing computer programs is the chance to tackle the challenge of dealing with missing information. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2016
There's a battle raging over whether academic research should be free, and it’s overflowing into the dark web.The Atlantic From ACM News | February 9, 2016