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From ACM NewsEsther Shein Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 8, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
In the era of big data, when demand for statistics is higher than ever, a shadow of danger looms over the numbers revolution: People are increasingly refusing to...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 3, 2015
Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Wednesday said it has evaluated more than 1.2 million Web pages for compliance with Europe's "Right to Be Forgotten" ruling, and removed...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 25, 2015
White House and congressional staffers have asked Silicon Valley executives for new talks in Washington, D.C., to resolve a standoff over encrypted communication...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 20, 2015
In the 1997 action movie Face/Off, an FBI agent must undergo face-transplant surgery and assume the identity of a ruthless terrorist to foil a plot.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | October 29, 2015
Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | October 7, 2015
Silicon Valley companies say they’ve been preparing for yesterday's European Court of Justice decision invalidating the U.S.-Europe Safe Harbor agreement on data...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | October 7, 2015
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has announced a Pentagon project to develop flexible electronic devices with Silicon Valley companies and scientists.The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 20, 2015
After a two-year shutdown, the atom-smashing machine known as the Large Hadron Collider has embarked on a renewed quest to probe some of the biggest puzzles about...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 28, 2015
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 22, 2015
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 17, 2015
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 26, 2015
A tremendous number of personnel records—including some quite personal records—have likely been stolen by computer hackers.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 15, 2015
To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | June 12, 2015
The U.S. government's widespread data surveillance practices are likely to cost U.S. cloud computing and other technology companies more money than originally expected...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | June 10, 2015
A new generation of robots is on the way—smarter, more mobile, more collaborative and more adaptable.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 4, 2015
Harald Geisler wants to make you as brilliant as Albert Einstein. Or at least let you write like him. Or at least write in his handwriting.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 3, 2015