A robotics competition at the conclusion of MIT's mechanical design class, "Design and Manufacturing 1," unleashed a variety of spinning, pumping, and striking robots.

Mark Zuckerberg is ready for his close-up.

Much of intel’s success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future of technology.

Four weeks into the academic tussle between computer science students and the administration of the University of Florida, the controversy surrounding a drastic restructuring of the school’s CS department remains unresolved.

In 2002, Indiana rolled out computer scoring of its 11th grade state writing exam.

When race cars whiz around a track at 200 miles per hour, driving ability isn't the only factor that determines who wins the race.

More young girls will recognize the career opportunities open to them in STEM fields only when women become more prevalent in STEM careers. 

With a peak in the cycle of solar flares approaching, U.S. electricity regulators are weighing their options for protecting the nation's grid from the sun's eruptions—including new equipment standards and retrofits—while keeping a lid on the cost.

Astronomers are taking a long, deep look at one of the best-known galaxies beyond our own Milky Way, to learn more about what happened when it gobbled up another agglomeration of stars that got too close.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history. Now what?

Xerox PARC's Van Jacobson and Pollere's Kathleen Nichols have developed Controlled Delay, a queue management mechanism designed to solve the "bufferbloat" problem, which happens when packet buffering causes high latency and jitter and reduces overall network throughput.  

Researchers at MIT, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Technology in Munich have shown that in a wired network, network coding and error-correcting coding can be handled separately without causing a reduction in the network's capacity.  

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The human body is regularly augmented with technology, from pacemakers and hearing aids to magnets people embed under their skin to give them a new sense. However, these implants typically don't provide any means to directly interact with them, limiting their usefulness. 

Now that the sound and fury in the Open Access movement has quieted down a bit, we can revisit the arguments for open access. The basic question I would like to address is what ACM's stance should be with respect to open-access publishing models.

Judy Robertson writes about researchers' use of the wrong statistical techniques to analyze attitude questionnaires.

Meet the candidates who introduce their plans — and stands — for the Association. Please take this opportunity to vote.

Reflections on the changing face of the history of computing.

Examining the effects of stealing on producers and consumers.

Considering how we can improve our understanding and utilization of the emerging human-computer network constituting the global brain.

With a peak in the cycle of solar flares approaching, U.S. electricity regulators are weighing their options for protecting the nation's grid from the sun's eruptions—including new equipment standards and retrofits—while keeping a lid on the cost.

Astronomers are taking a long, deep look at one of the best-known galaxies beyond our own Milky Way, to learn more about what happened when it gobbled up another agglomeration of stars that got too close.

Xerox PARC's Van Jacobson and Pollere's Kathleen Nichols have developed Controlled Delay, a queue management mechanism designed to solve the "bufferbloat" problem, which happens when packet buffering causes high latency and jitter and reduces overall network throughput.  

The human body is regularly augmented with technology, from pacemakers and hearing aids to magnets people embed under their skin to give them a new sense. However, these implants typically don't provide any means to directly interact with them, limiting their usefulness. 

Cornell University researchers have developed a algorithm that enables a robot to learn grasping skills from experience and apply them to new situations.

Much of intel’s success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future of technology.

For the CEOs of companies such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, talk of cyberweapons and cyberwar could have been abstract. But at a classified security briefing in spring 2010, it suddenly became quite real.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history. Now what?

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Bethesda Softworks has released a free, browser-based version of the iconic first-person shooter, Wolfenstein 3D.

The human body is regularly augmented with technology, from pacemakers and hearing aids to magnets people embed under their skin to give them a new sense. However, these implants typically don't provide any means to directly interact with them, limiting their usefulness. 

A federal appeals court last Friday upheld the National Security Agency's decision to withhold from the public documents confirming or denying any relationship it has with Google concerning encryption and cybersecurity.

IBM researcher Dimitri Kanevsky was recently honored at the White House to celebrate his achievements in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math for people with disabilities.  

Cornell University researchers have developed a algorithm that enables a robot to learn grasping skills from experience and apply them to new situations.

With a peak in the cycle of solar flares approaching, U.S. electricity regulators are weighing their options for protecting the nation's grid from the sun's eruptions—including new equipment standards and retrofits—while keeping a lid on the cost.

Astronomers are taking a long, deep look at one of the best-known galaxies beyond our own Milky Way, to learn more about what happened when it gobbled up another agglomeration of stars that got too close.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history. Now what?

Xerox PARC's Van Jacobson and Pollere's Kathleen Nichols have developed Controlled Delay, a queue management mechanism designed to solve the "bufferbloat" problem, which happens when packet buffering causes high latency and jitter and reduces overall network throughput.  

More ads.

Bethesda Softworks has released a free, browser-based version of the iconic first-person shooter, Wolfenstein 3D.

The human body is regularly augmented with technology, from pacemakers and hearing aids to magnets people embed under their skin to give them a new sense. However, these implants typically don't provide any means to directly interact with them, limiting their usefulness.