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ACM's Annual Report
I would be hard-pressed to recall in my four decades as an ACM member a time as eventful and exceptional as recorded by ACM in FY08.
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A Pioneer Woman
Programmer Jean Bartik is inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows.
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Context-Aware Smartphones
Future generations of smartphones will be context aware, tracking your behavior, providing information about the immediate environment, and anticipating your intentions...
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The Universe in Your Computer
Two virtual astronomical telescopes promise to transform the way people view and study the cosmos.
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Teaching Intangibles With Technology
European and Israeli researchers have developed an education system that focuses on teaching students critical thinking, social interaction, discourse, rhetoric...
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The 9 Hottest Skills For '09
Even with a struggling economy and record unemployment, certain IT skills will be in high demand in the coming year. Programming and application development will...
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Stimulus Could Boost It Job Prospects
The overall outlook for IT employment in 2009 is mixed, but some analysts say the U.S. federal economic stimulus package could add IT positions. Compared to jobs...
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Multicore Doesn't Mean Equal Core
Virginia Tech researchers recently found that the speed at which code is executed on multicore processors can vary by as much as 10 percent depending on how the...
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Mobile Phones to Be Primary Internet Device By 2020, Experts Predict
Mobile phones will become the primary Internet device for most people by 2020, largely due to their increasing computing power, predicts the "Future of the Internet...
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U.S. Is Losing Global Cyberwar, Commission Says
The United States is woefully unprepared for the challenges of 21st century cybersecurity, concludes a new report from the U.S. Commission on Cybersecurity, which...
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Project to Develop Conservation Software
A collaborative effort between Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment, the Nature Conservancy, and the World Wildlife Fund has been awarded a...
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Touching the Future
In combination with finger and hand gestures, multitouch input is enabling users to manipulate and display information in innovative and unprecedented ways.
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Living Machines
Researchers of molecular computing and communication are focusing on the type of breakthroughs needed to make the vision of ultrasmall, biocompatible computers....
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10 Microsoft Research Projects
Microsoft is supporting a host of projects in its research and development division that are focused on tackling real-world technical challenges but could haveView...
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Six Ways to Build Robots That Do Humans No Harm
A new book by Yale University ethicist Wendell Wallach and Indiana University professor Colin Allen, titled "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong,"...
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Open-Source Developers Set Out Software Road Map for 2020
A group of open source software advocates have published a report that establishes a road map for the software industry through 2020. The report makes several...
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Internet2: Full Speed Ahead
The Internet2 nonprofit consortium is engaged in the development, implementation, and use of networking technologies to tap a massive volume of new URL address...
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U.S. Agency Sees Robots Replacing Humans in Service Jobs By 2025
The U.S. National Intelligence Council's (NIC's) report, "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World," outlines the military, economic, and environmental challenges...
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Semantic Desktop Paves the Way For the Semantic Web
The European Union-funded Nepomuk project has developed innovative software to make finding and sharing information on a computer significantly easier, potentially...
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