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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How Isps Could Combat Botnets
Convincing Internet service providers to pinpoint infected computers on their networks could eliminate the lion's share of zombie computers responsible for churning...
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Redesigning the Web For Touch Screens
Last week, in an essay criticizing Adobe's Flash platform, Apple CEO Steve Jobs drew attention to, among other things, its lack of support for touch--something...
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Why Twitter Is the Future of News
It's basically impossible for a journalist who relies on Twitter to find stories, stalk editors, rack up "whuffie" and beef with rap stars to be objective about...
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Self-Powered Flexible Electronics
Sungkyunkwan University and Samsung researchers have developed a way to capture the piezoelectric power generated when a touchscreen flexes under a user's touch...
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How Personal Genomics Could Change Health Care
Several months after deciphering his genetic code last year, Stanford bioengineer Stephen Quake approached a cardiologist colleague. Early analysis of his DNA had...
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Augmented-Reality Floor Tiling
Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot....
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What's in a Tweet?
Researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) are developing new ways to deal with the torrent of information flowing from social media sites like Twitter...
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Peeking Into Users' Web History
In a test of Google's privacy protections, European researchers were able to hijack Google's personalized search suggestions to reconstruct users' Web search histories...
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A Flexible Color Display
Hewlett-Packard Labs researchers are testing a flexible, full-color display that saves power by reflecting ambient light instead of using a backlight.
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Real-Time Search
How do you parse a tweet? Five years ago, that question would have been gibberish. Today, it's perfectly sensible, and it's at the front of Amit Singhal's mind....
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Exposing Hackers as an International Deterrent
An international group of computer scientists, law professors, military leaders, and others recently met at Russia's Moscow State University for a conference on...
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Follow the Smart Phones
A service launched last week by Skyhook Wireless will make it possible for other businesses to predict, with new accuracy, which local bars will be hot at 8 p.m...
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New Computer Interface Goes Beyond Just Touch
Microsoft researchers have developed Manual Deskterity, a computer interface that combines touch input with the precision of a pen.
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Keeping Medical Data Private
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have created an algorithm designed to protect the privacy of patients while maintaining researchers' ability to analyze vast...
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Can the Kremlin's Silicon Valley Succeed?
Russia has chosen a site and is finalizing plans to start a Silicon Valley-like innovation center near Moscow.
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Combing Medical Records For Research
When the stimulus bill passed last year--allocating $20 billion to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records (EMRs)--many scientists were excited...
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Speedier Bug Catching
Engineers have developed new transistors that can locate hardware bugs in a fraction of the time it takes to perform normal debugging.
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Html 5 Could Challenge Flash
The Adobe Flash plugin has maintained its status as one of the most common ways for developers to create complex interactive Web features, but experts point to...
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Intel Prototypes Low-Power Circuits
The smaller a silicon transistor becomes, the more electrons it leaks. That can mean unreliable, battery-draining chips. Researchers at Intel have come up with...
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