Communications of the ACM
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May 2014
From ACM News
Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data
Scientists in the Netherlands have moved a step closer to overriding one of Albert Einstein's most famous objections to the implications of quantum mechanics, which he described as "spooky action at a distance."
From ACM Careers
.s. Companies Seek Cyber Experts For Top Jobs, Board Seats
Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that corporate America is increasingly worried about hacking threats.
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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer
MI6 called it Station X.
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Robots As Furniture?
Planning the menu for a dinner party in a tiny apartment can be far easier than making sure guests have a place to sit: Many apartment dwellers simply don’t have the luxury of a full dining set and a comfy couch for movie nights…
From ACM TechNews
Robot Linda Will Mingle With Visitors at the Natural History Museum
A specialist mobile robot named Linda will interact with the public at the Natural History Museum in London during Universities Week 2014.
From ACM TechNews
Get Ready For the Computers of the Future
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists are exploring ways next-generation computers can make performance gains while reducing energy consumption.
From ACM TechNews
Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment
Japanese researchers have proposed an approach to quantum cryptography they say could work with commercially available equipment.
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Computer Scientists Study Other Computer Scientists
A study and data set from Brown University on computer science faculty at the 50 top U.S. schools yielded interesting findings.
From ACM TechNews
Computer Worms
The informal, crowd-funded OpenWorm project aims to develop the world's first simulated organism, a worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans.
From ACM Careers
To Young Minds of Today, Harvard Is the Stanford of the East
In academia, where brand reputation is everything, one university holds an especially enviable place these days when it comes to attracting students and money.
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Brokers se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans
Are you a financially strapped working mother who smokes?
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Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet
The average computer user with an Internet connection has access to an amazing wealth of information. But there's also an entire world that's invisible to your standard Web browser.
From ACM Opinion
How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical information right over the top of the physical world.
From ACM TechNews
Google’s Experimental Smartphone Captures a Future Mapped in 3D
Google's Project Tango prototype Android smartphone could make it easier, faster, and less expensive to scan and map the world in 3D.
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A Major Mystery Behind Microsoft's 'brain-Like' Speech-to-Speech Translator
New speech-to-speech translation technology from Microsoft becomes better at learning a language as it learns additional languages.
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Estonia's E-Society: Visionary or Naive?
Estonians are very early adopters of information and communications technology (ICT) in domains across their society: from e-Banking and e-Health to e-Police and e-Voting. They show no fear the state as 'Big Brother;' rather,…
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Cloud and Supercomputing Cooperate in Molecular Dynamics Research
The director of the biophysics program at Stanford University says cloud computing and supercomputing technologies are bothnecessary for many fields of study.
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Buckle p--Ssds Are About to Get Three Times Faster
Researchers say they have developed technology that improves write speeds on solid-state drives by 300 percent using a firmware patch.
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?
As Memorial Day reminds us every year, war doesn't go away.
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sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes
Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands.
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Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn's smog-enshrouded moon Titan as a stand-in.
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How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic
"In the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight AF 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic while on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris."
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Girls at the Center of Obama's Science Push
Girls and women in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields will be a special focus of the annual White House science fair May 27.
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Supercomputers sed to Model Disaster Scenarios
Bangor University School of Computer Science researchers are using supercomputers to run programs that can predict how people will react in a disaster.
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Google's 'quantum Computing Playground' Lets You Fiddle With Quantum Algorithms
Google has released a new Web-based integrated development environment that enables users to experiment with quantum algorithms.
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Mint Program Helps Pinpoint Threats Contained in Intelligence Data
Researchers are working to improve the capabilities of the U.S. Multi-Disciplinary Intelligence system, which monitors incoming intelligence data.
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Computers Learn Better Reading Comprehension Through t Research
A University of Twente researcher has developed a way to help computers improve their understanding of written texts.
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Google ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave
At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online search engines that instantly recognize digital images.
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Google's Next Phase in Driverless Cars: No Brakes or Steering Wheel
Humans might be the one problem Google can't solve.