Communications of the ACM
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June 2014
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Deeper Than Ancestry.com, 'evocor' Identifies Gene Relationships
EvoCor is a new search engine that identifies genes that are functionally linked.
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2d Transistors Promise a Faster Electronics Future
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers say they have developed the world's first fully two-dimensional field-effect transistor.
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Simple Sewing Machine Has High-Tech Role in Future 'soft' Machines
Purdue University researchers have altered a standard sewing machine so it can create ultra-stretchable interconnects out of conventional wire.
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360-Degree Camera Shoots Vr Movies For Oculus Rift
Step into the silver screen with movies shot using the Panopticam.
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Tweets and Machine Learning Reveal Surprising Patterns of Happiness
Determining life satisfaction by geography, based on tweets.
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Wearable Submarine to Hunt for 2000-Year-Old Computer
The world's most advanced robotic diving suit is getting ready to help search for one of the world's oldest computers.
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New Chip to Bring Holograms to Smartphones
In the future, virtual reality won't require strapping a bulky contraption to your head.
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Computer Model Predicts Academic Success
The mantra "publish or perish" is drilled into every early-career scientist—and for good reason, a computer model suggests.
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E launches world’s largest civilian robotics program – 240,000 new jobs expected
The European Commission and 180 companies and research organizations have launched the world’s largest civilian research and innovation program in robotics.
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50 College Diplomas with the Highest Pay
Students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are making a handsome average salary of $89,800.
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Automating Cybersecurity
A system enabling computers to detect intruders and the flaws they exploit, and to automatically repair those flaws, could garner its programmers $2 million.
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Apple's New Programming Language, Swift, Will Lure More Developers
Apple has unveiled a new programming language it says offers a faster, easier way to build software for Apple products than its predecessor, Objective-C.
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Navy Puzzle Challenge Blends Social Media, Cryptology
The U.S. Navy has announced the winners of its Project Architeuthis cryptology puzzle game challenge, designed for Navy cryptology technicians.
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Bake Your Own Robot
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers recently introduced the concept of "bakable robots."
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'beam Me Up, Data'
Researchers say they have succeeded in teleporting information between qubits in different computer chips.
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American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
A top Chinese general was in a combative mood as he presided recently over an international security forum at a historic hotel near the Forbidden City. Among the attendees were a retired American admiral and a former American…
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Bake Your Own Robot
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science…
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A Rare Look Inside the Air Force's Drone Training Classroom
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Four experts at Applied Research Associates discuss the augmented reality system they created for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Automating Cybersecurity
If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers.
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.s. Schools Missing Opportunities For More CS Majors
Nearly half of U.S. college students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines change their majors.
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A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side
A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own.
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High-Performance Computing at Los Alamos Announces Milestone For Key/value Middleware
A project has achieved 1,782,105,749 key/value inserts per second into a globally-ordered key space on Los Alamos National Laboratory's Moonlight supercomputer.
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Php Keepers Plot Radical Revision of the Language
PHP core developer Dmitry Stogov recently started a new branch of the language called PHP Next Generation.
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Is It a Crow or a Raven? New Birdsnap App Will Tell You!
Birdsnap is a new smartphone app that uses computer vision and machine-learning techniques to produce an electronic field guide to North American birds.
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Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery By Simulating Cells
The future of medicine, we're often told, will be personalized.
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Repairing the Brain
Will the problem of memory loss one day be forgotten?
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Flashes of Light Show How Memories Are Made
Neuroscientists can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
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The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd
How well can you predict your next mood swing?
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Team Develops a Software Able to Identify and Track an Specific Individual Within a Group
Researchers say they have taken a new approach to monitoring animals that move in groups, with hopes of learning their rules of interaction.