Communications of the ACM
New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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niversity Studies Crowdsourcing For Intelligence
The U.S. intelligence community is studying how to tap the power of crowdsourcing through a multi-university effort.
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Founding Father Wants Secure 'internet 2'
A new version of the Internet might be the best way to defend against cyberattacks, says Internet co-founder Vint Cerf.
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'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...
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Data Mining For Global Change: Furthering Science, Knowledge
University of Minnesota's Vipin Kumar and colleagues want to integrate computer scientists into the effort to address climate change, ecosystem health, and global...
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Fraunhofer SCAI Successfully Completes Pilot Project on Information Extraction from Chinese Scientific Literature
The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing recently completed a pilot Chinese text mining project.
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Success at 16
A high school student wins first prize from ACM for developing a faster keyboard layout.
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Living in a Digital World
Technology has created new opportunities to connect and interact. Yet, researchers are increasingly concerned that heavy technology usage is changing people's behavior...
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Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces
Researchers are demonstrating advances in restorative BCI systems that are giving paralyzed individuals more effective ways to communicate, move, and interact with...
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Escaping Legacy It Systems
MIT researchers have developed a computer model of a corporate information infrastructure that could help information technology managers predict the effects of...
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Online Activity Grows in a Similar Pattern to Those of Real-Life Networks
Accelerating growth patterns appear in the virtual world, according to Lingfei Wu, a researcher at the City University of Hong Kong.
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Remaking American Medicine
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Invasion of the Mobile Apps
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
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Software Predicted Virus Risk in California Epidemic
Brown University researchers have developed DYCAST, a computerized epidemiological model that was able to predict the spread of the West Nile virus in California...
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Researchers Find Tipping Point to Sway Public Opinion
If 10% of a social network is strongly committed to an opinion, that’s enough to rapidly convert the uncommitted 90% to adopt their point of view, according to...
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Nsf's Seidel: 'software Is the Modern Language of Science'
Software is the core technology behind a dramatic acceleration in all areas of science, and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the science community...
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Research in Game Theory Tackles It Complexity
Institute of Science and Technology Austria professor Krishnendu Chatterjee recently was awarded grants from the European Research Council and Microsoft to support...
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Computer Scientist Predicts Your Next Facebook Friends
Stanford University professor Jure Leskovec is studying the traces human activity leaves on the Internet and how that data can be used to analyze human behavior...
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Los Alamos Builds Time Machine to the Way the Web Was
Researchers at the Los Alamos Research Library and Old Dominion University have developed Memento, a technical specification that embeds the concept of time into...
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Web Search Is Ready For a Shakeup, Says w Computer Scientist
University of Washington (UW) professor Oren Etzioni recently called on the international academic community and engineers to be more ambitious in designing how...
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