Communications of the ACM
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Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces
Researchers are demonstrating advances in restorative BCI systems that are giving paralyzed individuals more effective ways to communicate, move, and interact with...
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Escaping Legacy It Systems
MIT researchers have developed a computer model of a corporate information infrastructure that could help information technology managers predict the effects of...
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Online Activity Grows in a Similar Pattern to Those of Real-Life Networks
Accelerating growth patterns appear in the virtual world, according to Lingfei Wu, a researcher at the City University of Hong Kong.
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Remaking American Medicine
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Invasion of the Mobile Apps
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
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Software Predicted Virus Risk in California Epidemic
Brown University researchers have developed DYCAST, a computerized epidemiological model that was able to predict the spread of the West Nile virus in California...
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Researchers Find Tipping Point to Sway Public Opinion
If 10% of a social network is strongly committed to an opinion, that’s enough to rapidly convert the uncommitted 90% to adopt their point of view, according to...
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Nsf's Seidel: 'software Is the Modern Language of Science'
Software is the core technology behind a dramatic acceleration in all areas of science, and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the science community...
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Research in Game Theory Tackles It Complexity
Institute of Science and Technology Austria professor Krishnendu Chatterjee recently was awarded grants from the European Research Council and Microsoft to support...
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Computer Scientist Predicts Your Next Facebook Friends
Stanford University professor Jure Leskovec is studying the traces human activity leaves on the Internet and how that data can be used to analyze human behavior...
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Los Alamos Builds Time Machine to the Way the Web Was
Researchers at the Los Alamos Research Library and Old Dominion University have developed Memento, a technical specification that embeds the concept of time into...
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Web Search Is Ready For a Shakeup, Says w Computer Scientist
University of Washington (UW) professor Oren Etzioni recently called on the international academic community and engineers to be more ambitious in designing how...
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Why Math Works
Most of us take it for granted that math works—that scientists can devise formulas to describe subatomic events or that engineers can calculate paths for spacecraft...
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Massive Project to Study the Link Between Genetics and Health
Kaiser Permanente has compiled the genetic and medical data of 100,000 of its members.
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A Bookshelf the Size of the World
The goal of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is to make the digitized collections of the greatest research institutions in the United States accessible...
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Phone App Could Keep an Eye on Your Ride
Intel researchers are working on a project that connects the electronics inside a car to the Internet, so that mobile applications can provide a car owner with...
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Nature's Hidden Prime Number Code
Ever since humans evolved on this planet we have been trying to make sense of the world around us. We have attempted to explain why the world looks and behaves...
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The Importance Of Analyzing Social Intelligence
Huge amounts of data emanating from Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites, which is known collectively as “social intelligence, ” is being gathered...
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Prof Says Tech Entering the Age of the Algorithm
University of Texas at Dallas professor Andras Farago thinks that as algorithms become more important to software development, educational and career opportunities...
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