The Association for Computing Machinery has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention…
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The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...Wired From ACM News | January 8, 2016
Although software designed to play standard board games can now dominate even the best human players, the ancient game of Go has proven a much trickier challenge...Wired From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2015
In an effort to bring coding to an ever-larger group of kids and students, Code.org partnered with Lucasfilm as part of its annual Hour of Code event.Wired From ACM TechNews | November 13, 2015
GitHub, which has long been a fixture of the coding world, increasingly is becoming an integral part of coding education. Wired From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2015
Three-and-a-half years ago, a strange computing device appeared at an office building in the tiny farmland town of Shelby, Iowa.Wired From ACM News | June 18, 2015
As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope.Wired From ACM Careers | May 22, 2015
Arkansas took the lead in pushing computer science in schools last month when it passed a law requiring all public and charter schools to offer computer science...Wired News From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2015
Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door's height, instead of right in the middle? Or why a washing machine is...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2015
As a kid, Kirk Goldsberry was a rabid basketball fan. But this was the 1980s, and living near Penn State meant his house wasn't quite close enough to Philadelphia...Wired From ACM News | October 28, 2014
First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation.Wired From ACM News | August 1, 2014
We've seen how kids take to touchscreens. To them, our unfathomably sophisticated smartphones and tablets are about as hard to figure out as a bucket full of blocks...Wired From ACM News | September 6, 2013
There was a time when Melody Meckfessel juggled two wardrobes: one for one Google, and one for the rest of her life.Wired From ACM Careers | July 9, 2013