Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Search Service that Can Peer into the Future
Showing news stories on a timeline has been tried before. But Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine created in Yahoo's Barcelona research lab, generates...
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ACM China Nearing Launch
ACM's expansion into China will support local professionals and increase Chinese involvement in ACM's international activities.
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Degrees, Distance, and Dollars
The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students—but not necessarily at a lower cost.
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Brains and Bytes
Computational neuroscientists are learning that the brain is like a computer, except when it isn't.
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Online Games Are a Gold Mine for Design Ideas
Gone are the days when video gaming was a private pursuit. Gaming services such as Microsoft's Xbox Live not only connect players in living rooms the world over...
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Extreme and Green: What Science Needs from Computing
Four participants in the upcoming Kavli Futures Symposium discuss what science needs from computing, how current computing advances are impacting research, and...
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Tcs to Offer Cheap Cloud Computing Service in India
TCS plans to launch an affordable cloud computing service to small and medium businesses in India. The service is expected to be launched by mid-September.
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Machine, Heal Thyself
Florida Institute of Technology researchers are developing ways for computers to sense damage to their systems and automatically make repairs. "We're exploring...
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Citizen Scientists Discover Rotating Pulsar
The discovery by three citizen scientists of a new radio pulsar as part of the Einstein@Home project marks the first genuine astronomical discovery by a public...
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Threat Report Reveals Malware at All Time High
The newly released McAfee Threats Report: Second Quarter 2010 states that malware reached unprecedented levels in the first six months of 2010, the most active...
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Elite U.s. Cyber Team Courts Hackers to Fight Terror
A U.S. cybersecurity team that has clandestinely tracks cybercriminals wants to swell its ranks with an additional 1,750 "vetted volunteers" by 2012, and to this...
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Nist Advises Securing Critical Computer Systems From Beginning to End
A new draft report from NIST discusses the challenge of maintaining information system security throughout a system's life cycle, and provides an array of practices...
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It Industry Working Toward Energy Efficiency, Report Finds
The information technology industry is on track to achieve the Climate Savers Computing Initiative's goal of reducing annual carbon dioxide emissions by 54 million...
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Research Project to Investigate Cloud Computing Technologies
Aston University researchers are investigating the possibilities of next-generation cloud computing technologies for large scale and complex information technology...
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Data World Record Falls as Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier
Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier"—and a world record—when they sorted more than one terabyte of data ...
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Programming, Development Skills in Demand
Java/J2EE is the programming and development skill in most demand with more than 14,000 open job positions nationally, according to a July report from IT job board...
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How Will the Smart Grid Handle Heat Waves?
Pretty well, once the technology to automatically respond to peak demand and store renewable energy matures.
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Bringing Data Mining into the Mainstream
Plumbing the world’s ever-growing pools of digitized information—on the Web, in corporate databases, generated by scientific research—for wisdom and profit is a...
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Celebrating the Legacy of Plato
The PLATO@50 Conference marked the semicentennial of the computer system that was the forerunner of today's social media and interactive education.
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