Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Google's Kurzweil on Teaching Human Language to Computers
Famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil joined Google last month to work on "some of the hardest problems in computer science," specifically machine learning and...
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How Google Is Taking the Knowledge Graph Global
Earlier this month, Google shared a fascinating statistic. The number of items in the company's Knowledge Graph—its database of people, places, and things, and...
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Inside Google's Sci-Fi Search Experiments
The familiar whistle of a smartphone notification told me that Paco was hungry.
From ACM Opinion
How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind
It's time to think of Google as much more than just a search engine, and that should both excite and spook you.
From ACM News
Browser Choice: A Thing of the Past?
Like to pick your browser? Beware, because new mobile devices threaten to stifle the competitive vigor of the market for Web browsers on PCs.
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Google Wants Ability to 'combine' Your ser Data
Google is planning to rewrite its privacy policy to grant it explicit rights to "combine personal information" across multiple products and services, the company...
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Schmidt Avoids a Gates-Like Disaster in D.c.
Eric Schmidt cut a confident figure today prior to his testimony before U.S. lawmakers, who later appeared determined to find out if Google abuses its supremacy...
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Apple, Google Leagues Ahead in Developer Survey
Google lost some ground in its effort to catch Apple's lead in the effort to attract mobile developer interest, but other rivals aren't even close, survey data...
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Testing Google's Panda Algorithm: Cnet Analysis
Google's sweeping changes to Web site rankings have roiled the Web industry, including the company's announcement last week that its algorithms now incorporate...
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Benchmark Battle: Chrome vs. Ie vs. Firefox
There's no doubt the latest crop of stable browsers from Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are the best the companies have ever produced. But how do they perform...
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A Day Seen Through Google Searches
Google likes to think of itself as the world's information barometer, the most complete repository of human intent as measured by the Internet search query. Around...
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How Google Tested Google Instant
In a world of data-obsessed number-crunching engineers, Google's John Boyd is the people person.
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The Human Process Behind Google's Algorithm
Google is famous for evangelizing the power of the algorithm. It spends less time talking about the several hundred human beings who influence its algorithm.
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Two Years On, Chrome Reshapes Browser Market
It's been two years since the first public version of Chrome appeared, but in some ways, Google's browser remains a novelty.
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IBM Names Firefox Its Default Browser
Firefox has become the default browser for nearly 400,000 IBM employees, a big coup for the open-source project during a time of increasing browser competition.
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Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option
Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually.
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Feds Push For Tracking Cell Phones
Two years ago, when the FBI was stymied by a band of armed robbers known as the "Scarecrow Bandits" that had robbed more than 20 Texas banks, it came up with aconvicted...
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Cisco Predicts Wireless Data Explosion
If wireless operators thought they'd faced a deluge of data traffic from the iPhone, they haven't seen anything yet, according to a survey from network equipment...
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