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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.
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
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
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
Internet pioneer Vinton G. Cerf warned Thursday that political and technological forces threaten universal access and integrity, which he described as the foundation...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | May 18, 2015
For all the talk of Hadoop's potential to help companies leverage Big Data, corporate adoption remains low, a survey released today from Gartner Inc. found.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 14, 2015
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 1, 2015
Robots are goosing the productivity of the world's factories, but does that mean fewer jobs for humans?The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 1, 2015
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 1, 2015