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Sensing Emotions
From Communications of the ACM

Sensing Emotions

How computer systems detect the internal emotional states of users.

Google Ordered to Remove Links to Stories about Google Removing Links to Stories
From ACM News

Google Ordered to Remove Links to Stories about Google Removing Links to Stories

The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered Google to remove links from its search results that point to news stories reporting on earlier removals...

Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network
From ACM News

Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network

Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...

To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
From ACM News

To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird

It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.

Data-Crunching Is Coming to Help Your Boss Manage Your Time
From ACM Careers

Data-Crunching Is Coming to Help Your Boss Manage Your Time

You might be at work, but that hardly means you are working.

'next Gen Stats' Offer New Insights For Nfl Fans and Coaches
From ACM News

'next Gen Stats' Offer New Insights For Nfl Fans and Coaches

As Richard Sherman sprints side-by-side with Calvin Johnson, who is running faster?

With Google as Alphabet, a Bid to Dream Big Beyond Search
From ACM Opinion

With Google as Alphabet, a Bid to Dream Big Beyond Search

Shortly after its founding, Google posted a document on its site called "Ten things we know to be true," an effort to distill its unusual corporate culture into...

Google's $6 Billion Miscalculation on the Eu
From ACM News

Google's $6 Billion Miscalculation on the Eu

As the global elite gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and four other executives from the Internet...

Remember Conficker? It's Still Around
From ACM TechNews

Remember Conficker? It's Still Around

Malware called Conficker began widely infecting computers in 2008; about 1 million computers worldwide are still infected despite years of cleanup efforts.

Search For Alien Life Ignites Battle Over Giant Telescope
From ACM News

Search For Alien Life Ignites Battle Over Giant Telescope

There is a gaping hole in the latest effort to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), one so big it could hold an estimated 357 million...

Consortium Including MIT Awarded $110m National Grant to Promote Photonics Manufacturing
From ACM TechNews

Consortium Including MIT Awarded $110m National Grant to Promote Photonics Manufacturing

The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics will work to advance U.S. capabilities in integrated photonic technology.

As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change
From ACM Careers

As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change

After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more.

In Silicon Valley, Coders Are Making More Room For Curators
From ACM Careers

In Silicon Valley, Coders Are Making More Room For Curators

It's been almost a decade since the debut of the Netflix Prize, a $1 million bounty for the person or group that could best improve the company’s movie suggestion...

AI Researchers Call For Ban on Autonomous Weapons
From ACM News

AI Researchers Call For Ban on Autonomous Weapons

Technologists ask the UN to outlaw weapons that operate outside of human control.

This Small Change Could Make a Big Difference For Accessible Technology
From ACM TechNews

This Small Change Could Make a Big Difference For Accessible Technology

Yahoo, Facebook, and several other technology companies said they will inform job applicants that accessibility knowledge is "preferred" to land a job with them...

The 2015 Top 10 Programming Languages
From ACM TechNews

The 2015 Top 10 Programming Languages

Java remains at the top of IEEE Spectrum's second annual ranking of programming languages. 

Researchers Open Repository For 'dark Data'
From ACM TechNews

Researchers Open Repository For 'dark Data'

The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding an effort to develop a one-stop shop to house researchers' data sets after they publish their papers. 

The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
From Communications of the ACM

The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars

Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.

Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
From ACM Careers

Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance

Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...

Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable
From ACM Careers

Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable

The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.
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