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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Semantics-Based Software Boosts Company Performance
SUPER, a European research project, has developed software that expedites companies' development or adjustment of their business processes while realizing cost...
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.s. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears
The White House is proposing to soften a long-existing prohibition on tracking how users peruse U.S. government Web sites with cookies and other methods, inciting...
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Finding the Right Piece of Sky
At the recent ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 conference, Microsoft Research's Visual Computing Group presented SkyFinder, a search system designed to analyze images of the sky...
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Call For Debate on Autonomous Military Robots
BBC NewsAs robots are increasingly used in warfare, civilian lives will be put at greater and greater risk, according to University of Sheffield professor NoelView...
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Communication Devices 2033
Motorola's Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) teams have speculated possible evolutionary paths that communication devices may take during the next 25 years. They...
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Hackers Game a Multiplayer World
Two programmers have hacked the World of Warcraft online game environment with a set of programs that automate in-game characters, which game developer Blizzard...
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Mining Virtual Worlds to Better nderstand Reality
Hugely popular online virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life offer social scientists unprecedented views of gamers' behavior, and may be used...
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Intel Taps Facebook Multitudes For Massive Research Efforts
Intel has launched Progress Thru Processors, a new Facebook application that provides users with an interface to donate their unused computer processing time to...
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Computer Graphics Innovator Wins ACM Siggraph Research Award
ACM SIGGRAPH has awarded its 2009 Significant New Researcher Award to Wojciech Matusik for his original contributions to accurately capturing and representing real...
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Wiring Rural America: Which Technology Is Best?
Reaching the most remote rural customers with high-speed Internet access can be prohibitively expensive. Consider the case of Hill Country Telephone Cooperative...
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Does This Avatar Make Me Look Fat?
Creating a Second Life avatar, or virtual representation of oneself, that is thin and physically fit may encourage individuals to become healthier and more physically...
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Haptics: The Feel-Good Technology of the Year
Touchscreens are already being implemented in cell phones and are expected to sweep through mobile and desktop computing, but a pair of Silicon Valley companies...
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Epub: The Next Pdf?
EPUB, an XML format for reflowable text made from three open standards, is on its way to becoming an e-book industry standard. The standard, developed by the International...
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Video Game Minority Report: Lots of Players, Few Characters
First comprehensive census of video game characters finds Latinos nearly invisible; women, other groups underrepresented. Combined with wide reach of video games...
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Barcode Replacement Shown Off
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed Bokodes, a new barcode format that could replace the current barcodes used on retail products...
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Smart Machines: What's The Worst That Could Happen?
A panel of 25 artificial intelligence (AI) scientists, roboticists, and ethical and legal scholars have spent the past year discussing the risks of developing machines...
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Netflix Challenge Ends, But Winner Is in Doubt
Netflix's $1 million contest to design a better movie preference-matching algorithm ended on July 26th, with two teams in a near tie and the outcome of the contest...
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Engineering Labs Going Online as Part of Remote Controlled Learning Program
Montana State University (MSU) computer engineering students will soon be able to control laboratory equipment through their home computers. A two-year, $148,000...
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Mobile Computing Task Force: Making the Way For Mobile Learning
"I am helping to change the classroom." That's what Mike Dickson told his grandmother during a telephone conversation when she asked what he did for a living. Dickson...
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