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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IT Jobs Will Expand Globally by Nearly 6 Million in 4 Years
IDC predicts that by 2013, jobs in information technology (IT) will expand by 5.8 million worldwide, and that 75,000 new businesses will be created during that...
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Tracking Devious Phishing Web Sites
Internet security experts have discovered that many phishers are using a trick called a flux, which allows a fake Web site to rapidly change its URL, making it...
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Field Experiment on a Metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network
The University of Science and Technology of China recently demonstrated a metropolitan quantum cryptography network (QCN) for use by the government in Wuhu, China...
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Arduino's Tom Igoe
Tom Igoe is a co-developer of the Arduino programming language, which he says was created out of a desire to provide a tool for teaching physical computing to artists...
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Conference Focuses on Preventing High-Capacity Computer Data Theft
At the recent International Conference on Applied Modeling and Information Security Systems, high-performance computing researchers cautioned that worldwide computer...
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Jeff Dozier of csb Wins Microsoft Research's Jim Gray Award
University of California, Santa Barbara professor Jeff Dozier has received Microsoft Research's second annual Jim Gray eScience Award. The award was created to...
From ICT Results
Plastic Optical Fiber Brightens Communications Landscape
Groundbreaking research by a team of European scientists working in the EU-funded POLYCOM project has helped put plastic optical fiber (POF) on track for use in...
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Is My Robot Happy to See Me?
Scientists at Georgia Tech have tested people's ability to interpret a robot's "emotion" by reading its expression to see if there were any differences between...
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Merging Video With Maps
Microsoft and researchers from the University of Konstanz in Germany are collaborating to create Videomap, navigation software that incorporates videos of driving...
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In Search of Machines That Play at Being Human
This year, 15 teams from Brazil, Canada, the United States, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Spain, among others, participated in the BotPrize contest, which...
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Researchers Save Electricity With Low-Power Processors and Flash Memory
During ACM's recent Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh won the best paper award for...
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NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) says the 2010 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing will include affiliate award programs in Texas...
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Recommender Systems Make Learning More Fun
As part of the European Union TENCompetence project, the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies' Hendrik Drachsler searched for the most suitable way to...
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Seeing Things
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Antonio Torralba and students from the school's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) say...
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What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Would You Build With $32m?
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to build a large cloud computing test bed in an effort to determine whether cloud computing can help meet scientists'...
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Dispute Finder: Making the Call on Web 'facts'
Intel Labs researcher Rob Ennals has developed Dispute Finder, software that highlights inaccurate online information in pink with a link pointing toward a reliable...
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Northeastern Launches Online Master's Degree Program in Information Security
Northeastern University is launching an online graduate degree program in information assurance (IA). The program, which will train students to tackle identity...
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Quantum Computer Chips Now One Step Closer to Reality
Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today. This work might one...
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Hacker Dojo Sparks Ideas and Tinkering
A typical evening at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA, sometimes looks like chaos — two friends cobbling together a robot out of chips, circuit boards and servo...
From ICT Results