Communications of the ACM
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January 2015
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Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds
The motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, wingtips and heels.
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Prying Eyes: Inside the Nsa's War on Internet Security
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication.
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Speech Recognition Better Than a Human's Exists. You Just Can't se It Yet
Researchers say recent breakthroughs in speech recognition and artificial intelligence will soon make gadgets dramatically better at understanding people.
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New Programming Language Automatically Coordinates Interactions Between Web Page Components
A new programming language that lets developers write Web applications as self-contained programs.
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In Search of Bayesian Inference
Long relegated to the statistical backburner, Bayesian Inference is undergoing a renaissance.
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Data Brokers Are Watching You
You would be surprised by how much they know about you, and what they are doing with your information.
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Smart Transportation Networks Drive Gains
Transportation engineers and city planners are looking to information technology to redefine traffic management in urban areas. With the opportunity, however, comes risks.
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Google Boosts ACM's Turing Award Prize to $1 Million
The increase reflects the escalating impact of computing on daily life, through the innovations and technologies it enables.