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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Computer 'agents' Take to the Web
Artificial intelligence agents that automatically negotiate for online shoppers, called Negotiation Ninjas, will be tested on a shopping Web site called Aroxo this...
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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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Nist Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Processing in Step Toward Quantum Computers
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicists have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged...
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Supercomputer Visuals Without Graphics Chip
The obsolescence of graphics-processing clusters is being hastened by the rapidly accelerating data processing speed of supercomputers. Scientists at Argonne National...
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Warning Issued on Web Programming Interfaces
Application programming interfaces (APIs), software specifications that allow Web sites and services to interact with each other, have been a major factor in the...
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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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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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Behavior of Building Block of Nature Could Lead to Computer Revolution
Physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have demonstrated that electrons in narrow wires can split into two new particles called spinons and...
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Programming Tools Tap Video Game Processors For Defense Needs
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Institute (GTRI) are developing a programming tool that will enable defense industry engineers to use...
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Dna Computation Gets Logical at the Weizmann Institute
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a way to make biomolecular computers fashioned from DNA and other biological molecules more user...
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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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Creator of Cloth Simulation Software Tapped for ACM SIGGRAPH Award
ACM SIGGRAPH has awarded its 2009 Computer Graphics Achievement Award to Michael Kass, who designed a software program that replicates the movement of clothing...
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Yawn Alert For Weary Drivers
An in-car system for detecting driver fatigue has the potential to reduce traffic accidents caused by tired drivers, according to Aurobinda Mishra of Vanderbilt...
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Future Tech on Show at 36th Siggraph
Mk Haley, a juror for the Emerging Technologies area of SIGGRAPH 2009, says an ear-tugging navigator is the type of exhibit that will get people thinking and talking...
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ACM Siggraph Honors Rob Cook For Advances in Computer Graphics Imaging
ACM SIGGRAPH will present its 2009 Steven Anson Coons Outstanding Service Award on Monday (August 3, 2009) to Rob Cook for his pioneering technical contributions...
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Talking Paperclip Inspires Less Irksome Virtual Assistant
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has spent an estimated $150 million developing an artificially intelligent (AI) virtual assistant. DARPA's...
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Seeking Efficiency, Scientists Run Visualizations Directly on Supercomputers
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory are using a method called software-based parallel volume rendering to accelerate...
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Carnegie Mellon Tackles Data Management Maturity Model For Finance
Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council are collaborating to create a new data management...
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