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.
From ACM TechNews
Web 2.0 Application Developed to Recommend Television Programs
Researchers from the Interactive Digital Television Laboratory at Spain's University of Vigo have developed queveo.tv, a Web 2.0 application that filters the programming...
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Grid Browser Finds the Meaning of Life
The European Union-funded Sealife project has developed a Web browser capable of understanding the technical terms used in life sciences and automatically finding...
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Google Labs Cooks Up New Recipes For Web Wandering
Google has revealed an array of new search tools--Search Options, Wonder Wheel, Rich Snippets, and Google Squared--that enable users to combine options for displaying...
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Study: More Is Not Better in Search Engine se
Fewer items on the results page of a Web search might be more appropriate for certain situations and users, according to a new study from researchers at the Helsinki...
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Web Tool 'as Important as Google'
Physicist Stephen Wolfram says the goal of his free Wolfram Alpha program, which will be available to the public starting in the middle of May, is to "make expert...
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Network Pioneer Cited For Revolutionary Advances in Web Search Techniques
ACM announced Tuesday (April 28) that Jon Kleinberg, a professor at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing...
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Ibm Computer Program to Take on 'jeopardy!'
IBM is developing software designed to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants, which, if successful, could mark a major advancement in artificial intelligence...
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Researchers Work on Web Site Credibility Tests
Scientists at the Know-Center, a technology research center in Austria, are developing software capable of quickly determining if a Web site is a credible source...
From ICT Results
Easier Access to Digital Audio Archives
Digital sound archives offer enormously rich resources but accessing them is currently difficult. Sound material is often held separately from other materials and...
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Could Quantum Mathematics Shake Up Google?
Pedro Carpena, a physicist at the University of Malaga in Spain, has used a mathematical technique for studying disorder in quantum systems to extract keywords...
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Technology Merges Images, Data and Knowledge to Produce Smarter Searches
University of Texas at DallasUniversity of Texas at Dallas researchers are working to improve the results of searches that request multiple pieces of information...
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Canadian Researchers Reveal How They Cracked Chinese Spy Scam
A 34-year-old student and part-time tech geek at Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies tried everything to track down a piece of malicious software that...
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Metasearch Engine Leaves Google, Yahoo Crawling
One day in the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to type a query into an online search engine and have it deliver not Web pages that may contain an answer,...
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Mozilla, Graphics Group Seek to Build 3D Web
Khronos wants to develop a public version of a royalty-free specification for accelerated three-dimensional (3D) graphics on the Web within 12 months. The consortium...
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Europe May Lead Next 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...
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Google Rolls Out Semantic Search Capabilities
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...
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Scientists Publish Map of Knowledge
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...
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Berners-Lee: Semantic Web Will Have Privacy Built-In
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...
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Web Founder Issues 'snooping' Warning
Web pioneer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says more protection is needed to prevent Internet snooping and ensure that...
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