Former IBM researcher and visiting lecturer at MIT Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes that supercomputing and the IT industry must undergo a major technology and architectural...International Science Grid This Week From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2010
Amit Agarwal, based in India, has been blogging about technology for six years. He answers a few questions on his blogging career, the future of the Internet in...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2010
The reality--and my fears--dawned only slowly.
For weeks, friends and colleagues complained I had not answered their e-mail messages. I swore I had not received...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2010
The incredible ambition of the Large Hadron Collider has fired our imagination; physicists have become cult TV stars; dramatic new pictures from space grace a million...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2010
For about a decade now, ever since it became clear that the jungle of the World Wide Web would triumph over the walled gardens of CompuServe, AOL and MSN, a general...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 12, 2010
"How did you fool so many people for so long?" a reporter asked Tiger Woods at his press conference Monday. Woods replied: "I fooled myself."
And how. Woods was...Slate From ACM Opinion | April 8, 2010
HTML5 promises to revolutionize the way you build Web sites. Check out what fantastic new features are in store in the forthcoming Web standard.Web Developer's Virtual Library From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2010
But once you try one, you won't be able to resist.
I picked up my iPad at a San Francisco Apple Store early on Saturday morning, and I spent the rest of the weekend...Slate From ACM Opinion | April 6, 2010
The promotion of the IT industry in North Korea can be done in a way that could minimize the extent of market opening.Korea IT Times From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2010
Professional computing education for undergraduate majors and fundamental computer education for non-majors has evolved in China over the past decade as the nation...Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2010
Should we be surprised that the biggest fight over freedom of expression in years involves Google, a company that produces algorithms rather than articles?
Probably...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 29, 2010
Data structures are part of the foundation of computer science. It pays to revisit them from time to time.George V. Neville-Neil From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2010
Incorporating the consideration of privacy into the ongoing debate concerning network neutrality.Paul Ohm From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2010
To become an industry platform, vendors must open their infrastructure technology to other product companies.
Michael Cusumano From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2010
The fundamental assumptions of international development are changing, increasingly putting the tools for a digital economy into the hands of the world's poor.
...Richard Heeks From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2010
Google announced at 3:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 23rd (Beijing Time) its decision to move most of its China-based search functions from the Chinese mainland to Hong...People's Daily From ACM Opinion | March 26, 2010
The Internet Age is upon us. But rather than circulating online, the 23rd Decennial Census stuck with the tried-and-true, and flooded the U.S. Postal Service March...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 26, 2010
Here's a potentially noteworthy development in the patent litigation-riddled mobile device market.
The patent is No. 7,679,604, "Method and apparatus for controlling...CNET From ACM Opinion | March 25, 2010
China's censorship of the Internet may be blunt, but Google has found negotiations with the Chinese government in recent weeks to be subtle and uncertain.
That...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 25, 2010