Communications of the ACM
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Video Tool to Zoom in on Criminals
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed software that enhances the resolution of raw video images and improves the quality of the images. TAU professor...
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Researcher Develops Self-Learning Security System For Computer Networks
University of Twente researcher Damiano Bolzoni has developed SilentDefense, an anomaly network intrusion detection system that could lead to a new generation of...
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XHTML 2 Language Dumped in Favor of HTML 5
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will no longer develop XHTML 2, an XML-based version of HTML that would have provided capabilities for mobile systems and internationalization...
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Robot Mowers Take the Sweat Out of Lawn Care
In the summer, the grass just grows and grows and grows. And that means people must mow and mow and mow. But maybe not for long. Grass-cutting robots already exist...
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Students' Smartphone App Promotes Good Deeds
University of Michigan computer science students have developed DoGood, an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that encourages users to perform acts of kindness...
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Big Brother Untangles Baby Babble
Deb Roy, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, is exploring children's development of communication skills...
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Semantic Solution, A Patent Commercial Success
Information services company Matrixware has teamed up with a consortium of European researchers to enhance access to its database of patents. The commercial deal...
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Sound Imaging: Clever Acoustics Help Blind People See the World
The European Union-funded CASBLiP project has developed a portable system to help visually-impaired users navigate outdoors. The system analyzes video from portable...
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'mixed Reality' Human Helps Medical Students Learn to Do Intimate Exams
The University of Florida is using a life-sized computer avatar on a flat screen and a mannequin with prosthetic body parts to teach medical students how to perform...
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Researchers Receive $1.2 Million Muri Grant
The Army Research Office has awarded Pennsylvania State University (PSU) researchers pursuing work on hard/soft data fusion with a $1.2 million Multidisciplinary...
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Physics Brings Realism to Virtual Reality
The latest multi-core processors and smart software are enabling physicists and engineers to simulate the real world with unprecedented accuracy to create more...
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Award-Winning Paper Reveals Key to Netflix Prize
When the organizers of the Netflix Prize contest announced late last week that one team had met the requirement for the $1 million Grand Prize, Yehuda Koren, a15th...
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Data You Can Admire
The University of California, Davis' Visualization and Interface Design Innovation lab, run by professor Kwan-Liu Ma, seeks to render massive data sets into insightful...
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Techies the Latest Weapon in Catching Car Thieves
Researchers at the University of Technology, Sydney, (UTS) Australia, have developed software that uses new imaging technology to enable moving police cars to automatically...
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Business Groups Hail China Web Software Delay
The American and European chambers of commerce in China have welcomed a decision by Beijing to delay an order that new computers sold in the country be equipped...
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Cars Get Cooperative
European researchers have developed a groundbreaking middleware platform that could lead to thousands of new applications in a range of industries. Beginning with...
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Master of Connections
Jon Kleinberg is honored for his pioneering research on the Web and social networking.
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Liskov's Creative Joy
Barbara Liskov muses about the creative process of problem solving, finding the perfect design point, and pursuing a research path.
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Toward Native Web Execution
Several software projects are narrowing the performance gap between browser-based applications and their desktop counterparts. In the process, they're creating...
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