Communications of the ACM
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November 2014
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Mathematical Time Law Governs Crowd Flow
Walking in crowds means predicting the future.
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Ncwit Launches an Online Tool, Developed with Google, For Diversifying Computing Degree Recipients
A new National Center for Women & Information Technology program encourages development of more inclusive learning environments in computer science courses.
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11 Innovators Receive Hpc Excellence Awards
IDC has announced the winners of the eighth round of its HPC Innovation Excellence Award recognizing achievements in high-performance computing.
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Intel Turns to Light Beams to Speed p Supercomputers
Intel has developed a technology that uses optical cables and light pulses to move data in supercomputers.
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Georgia Tech Professor Proposes Alternative to 'turing Test'
Georgia Institute of Technology professor Mark Riedl has developed a more rigorous way to evaluate the intelligence of a computer than the Turing Test.
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Dartmouth's BRACE—a BRACE-Let to Improve Computer Security
The Bilateral Recurring Authentication Conducted Effortless system continuously authenticates users while they are using a terminal.
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Robots Put to Work on E-Waste
Researchers believe they have automated the process of disassembling liquid crystal display screens for recycling.
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Faculty Research Reveals Software Improving in Ability to Analyze, Score Writing
Software for evaluating human writing is improving and expanding in use.
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Rutgers Engineers Create Smartphone App to Cut Risk of Power Outages
Rutgers University researchers have developed a smartphone app designed to help engineers respond to widespread power outages.
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Cats and Athletes Teach Robots to Fall
Researchers are studying feline and human behavior during falls with the goal of applying its physics to robotic landings.
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Researchers Push Supercomputing's Bleeding Edge With Diverse Applications
One of five finalists will be awarded ACM's Gordon Bell Prize today at the SC14 high-performance computing conference in New Orleans.
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Creator of the First Computer Database Honored with National Medal
President Obama today presented computer technology pioneer Charles W. Bachman the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
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Apple and Others Encrypt Phones, Fueling Government Standoff
Smartphone makers' use of technology to encrypt their devices has provoked a standoff with the U.S. government, which sees such measures as impeding law enforcement.
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sing 3D Printers to Print Out Self-Learning Robots
Researchers at Oslo University are developing self-instructing robots using three-dimensional printers.
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Evolution Software Looks Beyond the Branches
PhyloNet is an open source Java-based program that accounts for both the horizontal and vertical inheritance of genetic material among genomes.
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Scientific Computing's Future: Can Any Coding Language Top a 1950s Behemoth?
Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in.
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Software to Automatically Outline Bones in X-Rays
Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing software that can automatically pick out the shapes of bones in X-rays.
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Ntu Engineers Develop Innovative Process to Print Flexible Electronic Circuits
Nanyang Technological University researchers say they have developed a technique to print complex electronic circuits using a common T-shirt printer.
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Supercomputational Thinking at Sc14
Considering how computational scientists have developed supercomputing technologies, and where it is helping take everyone else.
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Striving to Be Socially Responsible
Electronics manufacturers are taking their social and environmental responsibilities ever more seriously.
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Dell Research Works at Intersection of Technology, Customer Needs
The goal of Dell's research unit is to take a long-term view of trends in the industry and decide which ones to act on based on what makes sense.
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DARPA Wants to Toughen-p Wan Edge Networking, Security
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to improve networking and security at the wide area network edge.
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Penn Engineers Efficiently 'mix' Light at the Nanoscale
Scientists say photonic-based systems could replace electronic systems as a way to make computer components smaller, faster, and less power-hungry.
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Scientists Build a Better Eye on Our World
The University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory will work to develop a video camera that can capture images in 360 degrees.
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Self-Repairing Software Tackles Bugs
University of Utah researchers have developed a software suite that can detect and eliminate malware.
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Fighting Crime Through Crowdsourcing
Researchers are developing a computing model that uses crowdsourcing to combine and optimize human efforts and machine-computing elements.
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Researchers Test First 'smart Spaces' sing Light to Send Data
Dartmouth College professor Xia Zhou and colleagues are experimenting with "smart spaces" featuring ceiling-mounted light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and light sensors.
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Magic Tricks Created sing Artificial Intelligence for the First Time
Artificial intelligence researchers have taught a computer to create magic tricks.
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81% of Tor sers Can Be De-Anonymised By Analysing Router Information, Research Indicates
More than 81% of Tor clients can be ‘de-anonymized’ by exploiting Netflow technology.
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IBM Shares Plans For Supercomputing Future
IBM is developing a new supercomputing architecture to boost data processing at the storage, memory, and input/output levels.