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.
From ACM News
'spoofers' Use Fake Gps Signals to Knock a Yacht Off Course
University of Texas researchers recently tricked the navigation system of an $80 million yacht and sent the ship off course in an experiment that showed how any...
From ACM News
World's Most Influential Thinkers Revealed
Who are the most influential thinkers on the planet? That's a question that you might imagine ought to be straightforward to determine, given the recent advances...
From ACM TechNews
Intel Fuels a Rebellion Around Your Data
Intel Labs is launching a data economy initiative to help consumers realize more of the value of their personal digital information.
From ACM TechNews
Google Puts Its Virtual Brain Technology to Work
Google's recently developed learning software, which can identify specific objects by watching YouTube videos, is now being used to make Google's products smarter...
From ACM News
Biology's Master Programmers
George Church is an imposing figure—over six feet tall, with a large, rectangular face bordered by a brown and silver nest of beard and topped by a thick mop of...
From ACM TechNews
How to Predict the Spread of News on Twitter
Bernardo Huberman and colleagues at Hewlett-Packard's Social Computing Lab have developed an algorithm that can predict how popular new stories will become.
From ACM News
A Social-Media Decoder
From his 24th-floor corner office in midtown Manhattan, the veteran CBS research chief David Poltrack can gaze southward down the Avenue of the Americas, its...
From ACM Careers
'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians
The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...
From ACM News
Massive Project to Study the Link Between Genetics and Health
Kaiser Permanente has compiled the genetic and medical data of 100,000 of its members.
From ACM TechNews
Phone App Could Keep an Eye on Your Ride
Intel researchers are working on a project that connects the electronics inside a car to the Internet, so that mobile applications can provide a car owner with...
From ACM News
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Team Up to Advance Semantic Web
The move may finally encourage widespread use of technology that makes online information as comprehensible to computers as it is to humans. If the effort works...
From ACM TechNews
Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets
Facebook plans to open the designs and specifications of its new super-efficient data center. The company wants to encourage software-style openness for hardware...
From ACM News
A Search Service that Can Peer into the Future
Showing news stories on a timeline has been tried before. But Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine created in Yahoo's Barcelona research lab, generates...
From ACM News
Pitting Cloud Against Cloud
Tools that benchmark performance promise to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of competing cloud providers.
From ACM News
How Twitter Could Better Predict Disease Outbreaks
Social media is particularly useful for anyone who wants to track the present—or predict the future.
From ACM News
A Turning Point For Genetic Testing
In a prelude to overhauling its regulatory oversight of genetic diagnostic testing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will convene a public meeting next week...
From ACM TechNews
Physicists se Location to Guarantee Security of Quantum Messages
UCLA researchers have developed a type of quantum cryptography, which guarantees that only a person at a certain location can read an encrypted message.
From ACM News
A Faster Wireless Web
Transfers of large amounts of data across the Internet to wireless devices suffer from a key problem: The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used to send and receive...
From ACM News
Wi-Fi at the Speed of Light
A wireless network that uses reflected infrared light instead of radio waves has transmitted data through the air at a speed of one gigabit per second—six to 14...
From ACM News