Communications of the ACM
The Promise of Holographic Displays
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Cornell Develops Analysis Tools for Large-Scale Web Data
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...
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Microsoft Searches For Group Advantage
Microsoft researchers are investigating if using data from several members of a social group, a technique Microsoft calls "groupization," can lead to better search...
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SIGGRAPH Debuts in Asia
ACM's premier computer graphics conference hosts its first-ever graphics event in Asia, with a more global focus.
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The First Internet President
Barack Obama's presidential campaign utilized the Internet and information technology unlike any previous political campaign. How politicians and the public interact...
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Semantic Search Engine Helps Scientists Do Productive Searches
Scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) have developed Noesis, a new semantic Web search engine that enables researchers to obtain...
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Revealed: The Environmental Impact of Google Searches
Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross has been researching the environmental impact of Google searching and claims that one search generates about 7 grams...
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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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Google Brings Cross-Language Translation to Search Appliance
Google wants to create greater international interest in a new experimental feature that enables Google Search Appliance (GSA) to translate documents between 34...
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IBM Labs Promises Five Innovations
IBM researchers' list of promising new technologies includes the ability to "talk" to the Web; information collection and retrieval systems that cover us when we...
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W3c pgrades Web Accessibility Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released version 2.0 of its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which are designed to help developers make Web...
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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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Upwardly Mobile
Mobile phones are bridging the digital divide and transforming many economic, social, and medical realities, particularly in developing nations.
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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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The Limits of Computability
Computational complexity and intractability may help scientists better understand how humans process information and make decisions.
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Analyzing Online Social Networks
Social network analysis explains why some sites succeed and others fail, how physical and online social networks differ and are alike, and attempts to predict how...
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