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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Europe is leading the way in developing standards for next-generation Web technology. The European Commission (EC) last fall released a study outlining the steps...Investor's Business Daily From ACM TechNews | March 26, 2009
Google has added semantic technology to its Web search engine, which will enable it to identify associations and concepts related to a query, improving the list...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2009
Scientists at the research library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a map of knowledge that better reflects the actual use of information by...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2009
World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the Semantic Web will improve online privacy protection by allowing Internet users to control who can...ZDNet K From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2009
Web pioneer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says more protection is needed to prevent Internet snooping and ensure that...BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 13, 2009
Fraunhofer-GesellschaftThe Fraunhofer Institute's THESEUS Project aims to improve the use and exploitation of digital knowledge through the use of semantic technologies...Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2009
San Jose Mercury News (CA)A digital humanities project that started at Stanford University is teaching computers how to analyze text and extract metaphors to build...The San Jose Mercury News From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2009
The sheer scope of user-generated content (UGC) requires a level of organization in order to take advantage of the vast corpus of information and construct applications...Internet Computing From ACM TechNews | February 27, 2009
On the 40th anniversary of Douglas C. Engelbart's "The Mother of All Demos," computer scientists discuss the event's influence — and imagine what could have been...Karen A. Frenkel From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2009
Researchers are turning to computers to help us take advantage of our own cognitive abilities and of the wisdom of crowds.Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2009
Google recently added the one trillionth Web address to its list of indexed Web pages, and yet that represents only a small portion of the entire Web. Beyond the...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | February 23, 2009
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they will support Google's technology for detecting duplicate pages on Web sites. Web publishers will be able to use Google's...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | February 20, 2009
Over the past decade, as many as 10,000 of the rarest and most important medieval manuscripts have been scanned into digital formats that could be studied on the...UCLA News From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2009
The Web Lab project has developed a family of data analysis tools for searching the Internet Archive. The project, a joint effort by researchers at Cornell University...Cornell University From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2009
Microsoft researchers are investigating if using data from several members of a social group, a technique Microsoft calls "groupization," can lead to better search...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2009
ACM's premier computer graphics conference hosts its first-ever graphics event in Asia, with a more global focus.
Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
Barack Obama's presidential campaign utilized the Internet and information technology unlike any previous political campaign. How politicians and the public interact...Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
Scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) have developed Noesis, a new semantic Web search engine that enables researchers to obtain...The niversity of Alabama in Huntsville From ACM TechNews | January 21, 2009
Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross has been researching the environmental impact of Google searching and claims that one search generates about 7 grams...Times Online From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2009
Future generations of smartphones will be context aware, tracking your behavior, providing information about the immediate environment, and anticipating your intentions...Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2009