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ACM Multimedia 2013 – Challenges and Competitions
The program of ACM Multimedia is very diverse: apart from oral and poster presentations, panels and keynotes there are challenges and competitions. Some may really...
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ACM Multimedia 2013 – Best Papers and the Revision Process
This year ACM Multimedia had a new revision process that may be of interest for other ACM conferences. Let's review it and see also the best papers selection.
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ACM Multimedia 2013 – The First Day
ACM Multimedia, the foremost conference on multimedia, has started in Barcelona (Spain). Let's see what are some highlights of the first day.
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The First Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2013
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2013 is an annual event where 200 young researchers get to meet with and learn from 40 Turing Award, Fields Medal, Abel Prize...
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Are Data Miners Ready to Hang p the Hard Hat and Put on a Lab Coat?
We will find out this week at the annual ACM SIGKDD on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference in Chicago.
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Athena Award Nominations Closing Soon!
Don't miss out on the chance to nominate someone for an Athena Award from ACM-W.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia . . .
Aria Haghighi, an award-winning natural language processing researcher, describes his trek from a tenure-track faculty job at UMass-Amherst to his decision to leave...
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Microsoft Research, New York City
Yahoo! laid off people. Unlike every previous time there have been layoffs, this is serious for Yahoo! Research.
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Judea Pearl Wins 2011 ACM Turing Award
Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the winner of the 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
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John McCarthy
The contributions and personality of John McCarthy, one of the pioneers of computer science.
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Research Directions For Machine Learning and Algorithms
An in-depth discussion of near-term research directions for machine learning and algorithms.
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Embracing Noise or Why Computer Scientists Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Errors
Precision is not required in everything or even most things. Failures are best handled by expecting them all the time, not treating them as exceptions. We should...
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Intellectual Amplification via Computing
As the recent performance of IBM's Watson system on the game show Jeopardy! illustrated, the combination of large-scale data, rich algorithm suites and powerful...
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Barbara Liskov Keynote Grace Hopper Conference
In her Grace Hopper keynote talk, Barbar Liskov reflected on her research journey and the work for which she was given the Turing Award.
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Better Game Playing Using Parallel Algorithms
Innovations in playing the game "Go" using Monte Carlo Tree Search and parallel algorithms.
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Choosing Successful Research
How to choose research projects that are more likely to be successful.
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Robots After Roomba: The Ethics of Electronic Companions
As robots become woven into the fabric of daily life, what ethical issues will the world face?
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CHI 2010: User Interfaces Learn a Thing or Two
The 2010 conference in Human Factors in Computing Systems has seen a noticeable uptick in projects on and engagement with machine learning.
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The Rise of the External Brain
From an entirely unexpected source, we begin to realize the dream of an external brain that supplements our knowledge, wisdom, and memories.
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