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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Consumers, Marketers Differ on Electronic Privacy Rules
The the first study to directly compare consumer and marketer expectations for privacy limits, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that...
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Taking the Mystery Out of Web Anonymity
The Obama Administration is trying to fix the Internet’s dog problem.
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A Decade Later, Internet Appliance Dream Is Realized
Ten years ago, the next big thing in tech was supposed to be the Internet appliance: a device that offered tech newbies a simpler and cheaper way to get onto the...
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Intel to Focus on How Computers Will Be sed in the Future
Intel has created Interaction and Experience Research, a new research lab led by Intel fellow Genevieve Bell that will enable scientists to explore how people will...
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Haptics Brings a Personal Touch to Technology
Of all the senses, touch as been somewhat neglected as a human means of interacting with machines. Labs around the world are now racing to close the gap while...
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Program Finds Patterns in Social Networks
University of Maryland researchers have developed the COSI program, an algorithm that supports subgraph pattern matching in very large social networks containing...
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Arrests of Alleged Spies Draws Attention to Steganography
A year ago in April, the government says, the accused operative known as Richard Murphy and his supposed wife, "Cynthia Murphy," booted up a computer in their comfy...
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Google Faces Pressure As China to Decide on License
Google Inc. could face further pressure for its other products in China as Beijing is due to decide whether or not to renew a license for the firm's flagship search...
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Sony Says 535,000 Vaio Laptops at Risk of Overheating
More than half a million Sony Vaio F and C series laptops sold this year contain a software bug that could lead them to overheat, the company said. A bug in the...
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Google in 'new Approach' on China
Until recently, the firm automatically redirected Chinese users to its unfiltered search site in Hong Kong to get round censorship issues. Google has said it will...
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Cellphone Crime Solvers
Clues to crimes today are as likely to be found by examining the data stored in a cellphone or other mobile device as they are by dusting a crime scene. But the...
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How a Computer Program Became Classical Music's Hot, New Composer
University of California, Santa Cruz professor David Cope has developed Emily Howell, a music-composing program that generates its own compositions by following...
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'augmented Reality' on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth
University of Wisconsin at Madison researchers are developing an open source tool that lets designers link text, images, video, and audio into a physical location...
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Judge Sides With Google in Viacom Video Suit
In a major victory for Google in its battle with media companies, a federal judge in New York on Wednesday threw out Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement...
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Sending Data 160 Characters at a Time
In the absence of a good Internet connection, why not use text messages to transmit data?
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Blogs and Tweets Could Predict the Future
Forecasts about social and economic trends could be generated through the analysis of blogs and tweets, building on earlier research by Google and others to mine...
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sing the Wisdom of Crowds to Translate Language
Linguists are attempting to harness the power of crowdsourcing to help machines achieve perfect translations.
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Visions of the Future
ACM joined forces with the British Computer Society to deliver its first academic research conference in Europe.
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Eric Brewer: Change Agent
Eric Brewer's latest project involves designing and deploying low-cost wireless infrastructure in developing regions.
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