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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Evaluators Sought For Degree Programs in Computing
CSAB Inc. — the lead society within ABET Inc. for the accreditation of college-level programs in computer science, information systems, IT, and software engineering...
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Moscow Wants Trained It Specialists
Amid Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's calls for modernization, one of the IT sector's top employers has said Russian high-tech companies are being let down by...
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Georgia Tech Creates Online Master's Degree in Information Security
Georgia Tech's College of Computing has created a new Master of Science in Information Security degree available online in a distance learning format, a flexible...
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Minority Students Earned Greater Number of Degrees in Fiscal 2006
Students in underserved populations earned a greater number of academic diplomas in almost all categories in fiscal year 2006 compared to fiscal year 2004, according...
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Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis
The economic crisis and the reduced costs of high-tech tools and materials are fueling a resurgence in tinkering and experimentation. U.S. engineering schools...
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Inventing a Programming Language
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Barbara Liskov, winner of ACM's 2008 A.M. Turing Award, recently delivered the first lecture of MIT's 2009...
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Digital Cloud Plan For City Skies
A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers. The construction...
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Social Tags Complement the Learning Resource Metadata, Researcher Finds
Social tagging can help people find educational resources in digital repositories that are filled with millions of learning materials, says Open University of the...
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Adding a Sixth Sense to Your Cellphone
Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also...
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Splitting p Search
Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according...
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Endowment Fund to Support Ict Research
Australia will continue to serve as a hub for research into wireless technologies as a result of new funding from the Science and Industry Endowment Fund, announced...
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Amir Pnueli, Distinguished Computer Scientist and Researcher, Dies
Amir Pnueli, a professor of Computer Science at New York University and winner of the 1996 ACM A. M. Turing Award, died suddenly on November 2 of a brain hemorrhage...
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K-State Freshman Manages Largest Supercomputer in Kansas
Kansas State University's (KSU's) Beocat is a cluster of 122 servers that work together to form Kansas' largest academic research supercomputer. "It's easier to...
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Chicago Academy of Advanced Technology Opens
The Chicago Academy of Advanced Technology (CAAT) opened its doors on Sept. 8, 2009. The academy is the result of an effort to fill the need for skilled IT workers...
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Study: No Shortage of .s. Engineers
The United States, contrary to popular belief, is not lacking graduates in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, according to a study...
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Meeting Notes Progress For Women in Academic Science, but More Work to Do
The current state of women in academia was addressed during the annual meeting of the grant recipients of the U.S. National Science Foundation's Advance program...
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Professor Working to Advance Computing as a Science
University of Arizona professor Richard T. Snodgrass has received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to promote computation as a true science. "The problem...
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Report rges Colleges to Emphasize Math, Science, and International Studies
Mathematics, science, and technology must continue to be a priority for U.S. higher education to ensure that the United States remains globally competitive, according...
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Overseas Chinese Return to Start Companies
TIANJIN, China — This city in northeastern China is a long way from Sand Hill Road, home to the world's greatest concentration of venture capitalists. But a deal...
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