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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
It's the latest mystery in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Was a key communications system on board the plane disabled before or after the co-pilot calmly...The Washington Post From ACM News | March 19, 2014
After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...The Washington Post From ACM News | March 10, 2014
On Friday, what had been the world's leading Bitcoin exchange declared bankrutpcy, claiming that hackers had exploited a technical issue called "transaction malleability...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | March 3, 2014
A new report from the Pew Research Center and the Social Media Research Foundation says that Twitter conversations have distinct shapes—at least six of them with...The Washington Post From ACM News | February 21, 2014
Microsoft researchers have enabled elevators in a company building to detect the likelihood that a person walking by will want to board it.The Washington Post From ACM News | January 24, 2014
Microsoft Research cognitive psychologist Mary Czerwinski is an affective computing expert who creates technology that monitors a person's mood and stress level...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | January 17, 2014
Back in 2003, when he was a law professor at the University of Virginia, Tim Wu wrote the definitive paper on net neutrality.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
I thought it would be interesting to hear from D-Wave, a start-up that has raised more than $130 million in venture capital and employs over 100 people.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 14, 2014
My Washington Post colleagues have reported on a National Security Agency program to to build a quantum computer.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2014
By now, most people have heard of Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer currency whose value has soared over the past couple of years.The Washington Post From ACM News | December 30, 2013
One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...The Washington Post From ACM News | December 23, 2013
On Monday, President Obama kicked off computer science education week, encouraging every young person to acquire computer programming skills, even if they have...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013
The man who called himself "Mo" had dark hair, a foreign accent and—if the pictures he emailed to federal investigators could be believed—an Iranian military uniform...The Washington Post From ACM News | December 10, 2013
With Bitcoin interest (and prices) spiking, you might be considering investing in your own little cache of digital currency.The Washington Post From ACM News | December 5, 2013
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to get involved in state efforts to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect sales tax from customers even in places...The Washington Post From ACM News | December 2, 2013
It's taken almost a decade, but the courts have finally handed down a ruling on Google's audacious project to scan millions of books to build a book search engine...The Washington Post From ACM News | November 14, 2013