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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Theseus Tool Enables Semantic Technologies For Next-Generation Internet
Fraunhofer-GesellschaftThe Fraunhofer Institute's THESEUS Project aims to improve the use and exploitation of digital knowledge through the use of semantic technologies...
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Researchers Mine Millions of Metaphors Through Computer-Based Techniques
San Jose Mercury News (CA)A digital humanities project that started at Stanford University is teaching computers how to analyze text and extract metaphors to build...
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Semantics-Empowered Social Computing
The sheer scope of user-generated content (UGC) requires a level of organization in order to take advantage of the vast corpus of information and construct applications...
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A Difficult, Unforgettable Idea
On the 40th anniversary of Douglas C. Engelbart's "The Mother of All Demos," computer scientists discuss the event's influence — and imagine what could have been...
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Crowd Control
Researchers are turning to computers to help us take advantage of our own cognitive abilities and of the wisdom of crowds.
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Exploring a 'Deep Web' That Google Can't Grasp
Google recently added the one trillionth Web address to its list of indexed Web pages, and yet that represents only a small portion of the entire Web. Beyond the...
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Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Collaborate to Clean p Web
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they will support Google's technology for detecting duplicate pages on Web sites. Web publishers will be able to use Google's...
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UCLA Team Creates Virtual Library of Medieval Manuscripts
Over the past decade, as many as 10,000 of the rarest and most important medieval manuscripts have been scanned into digital formats that could be studied on the...
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Cornell Develops Analysis Tools for Large-Scale Web Data
The Web Lab project has developed a family of data analysis tools for searching the Internet Archive. The project, a joint effort by researchers at Cornell University...
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Microsoft Searches For Group Advantage
Microsoft researchers are investigating if using data from several members of a social group, a technique Microsoft calls "groupization," can lead to better search...
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SIGGRAPH Debuts in Asia
ACM's premier computer graphics conference hosts its first-ever graphics event in Asia, with a more global focus.
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The First Internet President
Barack Obama's presidential campaign utilized the Internet and information technology unlike any previous political campaign. How politicians and the public interact...
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Semantic Search Engine Helps Scientists Do Productive Searches
Scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) have developed Noesis, a new semantic Web search engine that enables researchers to obtain...
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Revealed: The Environmental Impact of Google Searches
Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross has been researching the environmental impact of Google searching and claims that one search generates about 7 grams...
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Context-Aware Smartphones
Future generations of smartphones will be context aware, tracking your behavior, providing information about the immediate environment, and anticipating your intentions...
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The Universe in Your Computer
Two virtual astronomical telescopes promise to transform the way people view and study the cosmos.
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Google Brings Cross-Language Translation to Search Appliance
Google wants to create greater international interest in a new experimental feature that enables Google Search Appliance (GSA) to translate documents between 34...
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IBM Labs Promises Five Innovations
IBM researchers' list of promising new technologies includes the ability to "talk" to the Web; information collection and retrieval systems that cover us when we...
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W3c pgrades Web Accessibility Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released version 2.0 of its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which are designed to help developers make Web...
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