Client: Association for Computing Machinery

Post author By tgeller
Post date 31 October 2012

Control without Controllers

Screenshot of CACM article about the Touché sensor project

1500-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

A feature article about Disney's Touché sensor project, which explores new ways of controlling electronics with touch....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 28 August 2012

The Future of Free Speech Online

Image of the article as it appeared in print

300-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

A very brief article about whether survey respondents believe that technology companies in the democratic West will increasingly help repressive governments....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 3 August 2012

DARPA Shredder Challenge Solved

Screenshot of CACM article about the DARPA Shredder Challenge

1500-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

A feature article about a $50,000 challenge issued by DARPA and its solutions, including quotes from the First and Second Place winners....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 2 April 2012

Talking to Machines

Screenshot of CACM article about speech recognition

2000-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

A feature article about modern applications of speech recognition, in particular how they've combined with complementary technologies to produce such consumer products as Siri....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 5 March 2012

Cloud-based HPC

275-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

A very brief article about a U.S. Government report on whether high-performance computing is cost-effective using cloud-computing techniques....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 28 November 2011

Managing the Demise of Privacy

750-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

A news report on the Privacy Identity Innovation conference in Menlo Park, November 2011, which focused largely on how social media are changing the landscape…...

Post author By tgeller
Post date 4 September 2011

Supercomputing’s Exaflop Target

1700-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

A review of Asia's recent ascendency in the Top500 list of the world's leading supercomputers, and the supercomputing field generally....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 11 June 2011

The Promise of Flexible Displays

1700-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

Article about advances in electronic displays that can bend, be made in irregular shapes, and be produced through a print-like process....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 15 February 2011

IT drives policy — and vice versa

575-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

Reporting on a three-day conference about technology policy. This was my biggest case of preparation overkill: 12,000 words of notes went into a 575-word article....