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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Sony Brings In High-Tech Sleuths
New details emerged about Sony Corp.'s investigation into one of the biggest data breaches in history, as the company attempts to piece together who stole personal...
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Failure Cascading Through the Cloud
Two major cloud computing services, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and Sony's PlayStation Network, recently suffered extended outages. Though the circumstances...
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The Ph.d. Problem: Are We Giving Out Too Many Degrees?
In developed nations, the number of Ph.D.s given in the sciences each year has grown by almost 40% since 1998, reaching about 34,000 doctorates in 2008. This...
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A Glimpse Inside Google's Beijing Headquarters
Google may appear to be under siege in China, but a sense of normalcy—Google style—pervades the company's headquarters here.
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Jobs and Apple Execs on Tracking Down the Facts About Iphones and Location
Although Apple was silent for several days after researchers raised issues about location information being stored on the iPhone, that wasn’t because it was ignoring...
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China: 900 Million Mobile sers Asking Themselves "iphone or Android"?
In Apple's second quarter, iPhone sales in China surged nearly 250% year over year, making the country the iPhone's fastest growing market—a title it will retain...
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Joichi Ito Named Director of MIT Media Lab
MIT announced that Joichi (“Joi” — pronounced “Joey”) Ito has been selected as the next director of the MIT Media Lab.
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Apple, Google Leagues Ahead in Developer Survey
Google lost some ground in its effort to catch Apple's lead in the effort to attract mobile developer interest, but other rivals aren't even close, survey data...
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Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.
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Deus Ex Machina
Computational metaphysics is helping philosophers answer age-old questions, such as whether God exists.
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Data Optimization in Developing Nations
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters...
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I, Domestic Robot
With recent advances in laser rangefinders, faster algorithms, and open source robotic operating systems, researchers are increasing domestic robots' semantic and...
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This Tech Bubble Is Different
Tech bubbles happen, but we usually gain from the innovation left behind. This one—driven by social networking—could leave us empty-handed.
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Justices Question Microsoft's Vision of Patent Law
U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned Monday whether they should side with Microsoft and weaken the legal standard needed to invalidate a patent, with some justices...
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Busy Job of Judging Video-Game Content to Be Ceded to Machines
The little E's, T's, and M's that appear on the covers of video games get there the old-fashioned way: People working for the Entertainment Software Rating Board...
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The Marketing Gadget That Tracks Brainwaves As You Watch Tv
Would you feel comfortable if market researchers could know your every thought? A headband designed by San Francisco firm EmSense can sense your brainwaves as...
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Hoops 2.0: Inside the Nba
Outside Oracle Arena, it’s a balmy 65-degree spring day. But up in the building’s rafters, 80-odd feet above the hardwood floor, the air is crisp and the view...
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Mentorship Key For Women in It, Says Collaborate Panel
A recent panel discussion at the Collaborate 11 Oracle user conference concluded that mentors and sponsors are crucial to helping women advance their careers in...
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Robots on the Farm
Commercial farms of the future may be staffed by robots that will identify, spray and pick individual pieces of produce from plants, even when their targets are...
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