Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Computers Get Help from the Human Brain
Tapping into the processing power of the human brain could help computers with some tasks.
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A Matter of Privacy
Do consumers have enough control over their personal information or is more government regulation needed?
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Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data
With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.
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The Eyes Have It
Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.
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Google Battles to Keep Talent
Google Inc. is fighting off Facebook Inc. and other fast-growing Internet firms that are poaching its staff, a reversal for a company that has long been one of...
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Search Engine Optimization 'poisoning' Way Up This Year: Report
Websense says 22.4% of Google searches lead to bad URLs vs. 13.7% at end of 2009.
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Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn
Silicon Valley is awash in tales of the "PayPal Mafia," the tight-knit group of PayPal alumni who have helped one another start and finance a crop of new companies...
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New Google Tool Makes Websites Twice as Fast
The optimization tool is the latest result of Google's speed obsession and could add to the company's bottom line.
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A Day Seen Through Google Searches
Google likes to think of itself as the world's information barometer, the most complete repository of human intent as measured by the Internet search query. Around...
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A New Search Engine, Where Less Is More
Start-ups and big companies alike have tried to take on Google by building a better search engine. That they have failed has not stopped brave new entrants.
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'wireless' Humans Could Form Backbone of New Mobile Networks
Members of the public could form the backbone of powerful new mobile Internet networks by carrying wearable sensors, according to researchers from Queen's University...
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Where Good Ideas Come From
New search technologies can identify influential documents without relying on links.
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Security in the Cloud
Cloud computing offers many advantages, but also involves security risks. Fortunately, researchers are devising some ingenious solutions.
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Turning Data Into Knowledge
Today's data deluge is leading to new approaches to visualize, analyze, and catalog enormous datasets.
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Computer Scientist Discusses Google Project
Manas Tungare, a 2009 doctoral graduate of Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science, was the first engineer to work on Google Instant during its earliest...
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New Search Method Tracks Down Influential Ideas
Princeton University computer scientists have developed a method that uses algorithms to trace the origins and spread of ideas, which they say could make it easier...
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Web Ads Tied To News Photos Pop Up More And More
Just because you can do something doesn't mean, of course, that you should. With today's technology, for instance, it's possible to give people who read the National...
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The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions
Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent.
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Effective Search Terms Yield the Right Information
University of Gothenburg doctoral student Karin Friberg Heppin says that asking for information in the right way would help improve the performance of search engines...
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