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Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate
From ACM Opinion

Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate

When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...

Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper
From ACM Careers

Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper

When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...

Sensors For Seniors
From Communications of the ACM

Sensors For Seniors

In-home technologies are helping seniors stay aware, healthy, and in touch.

Intelligent Living
From Communications of the ACM

Intelligent Living

After years of false starts, the smart home is gaining momentum.

At China Online Coming-Out Party, Beijing Spells Out Internet Control Ambition
From ACM News

At China Online Coming-Out Party, Beijing Spells Out Internet Control Ambition

China showed governments and the planet's biggest tech firms last week its vision for global Internet governance—clean, controlled and choreographed.

Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
From ACM News

Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software

Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs...

Study Finds Search Engine Poisoning Persistent, Hard to Solve
From ACM TechNews

Study Finds Search Engine Poisoning Persistent, Hard to Solve

A new study finds efforts to prevent the manipulation of search results are having little impact on online fraud. 

Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the ­niverse
From ACM Careers

Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the ­niverse

As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...

How Alibaba Is ­sing Bra Sizes to Predict Online Shopping Habits
From ACM News

How Alibaba Is ­sing Bra Sizes to Predict Online Shopping Habits

Earlier this summer, a group of data crunchers looking at underwear sales at Alibaba came across a curious trend: women who bought larger bra sizes also tended ...

Why You Probably Won't Understand the Web of the Future
From ACM News

Why You Probably Won't Understand the Web of the Future

The giants of the connected world are finally waking up to one of the biggest obstacles in their stated missions of connecting billions more people to the internet...

How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionizing Flu Forecasting
From ACM News

How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionizing Flu Forecasting

This time last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta launched a competition to find the best way to forecast the characteristics of the...

Verizon, At&t Tracking Their Users with 'supercookies'
From ACM News

Verizon, At&t Tracking Their Users with 'supercookies'

Verizon and AT&T have been quietly tracking the Internet activity of more than 100 million cellular customers with what critics have dubbed "supercookies"—markers...

Ft Interview with Google Co-Founder and Ceo Larry Page
From ACM Opinion

Ft Interview with Google Co-Founder and Ceo Larry Page

Wouldn't the world be a happier place if 90 per cent of the people with jobs put their feet up instead and left the robots to do the work?

New Players in the Nba: Big Data, ­ser-Controlled Jumbotrons
From ACM Careers

New Players in the Nba: Big Data, ­ser-Controlled Jumbotrons

The NBA ushered in the new season this past week, and fans at the Staples Center for the Los Angeles Clippers' opening game had access to some new toys.

Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine—after Getting It Wrong
From ACM News

Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine—after Getting It Wrong

It's flu season and Google has some news.

Stanford Libraries ­nearths the Earliest ­.s. Website
From ACM TechNews

Stanford Libraries ­nearths the Earliest ­.s. Website

Stanford Libraries has launched Stanford Wayback, a customized version of an open-source platform that enables long-term access to archived Web assets. 

How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its ­sers Consume Journalism
From ACM News

How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its ­sers Consume Journalism

Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy.

Keeping Online Reviews Honest
From Communications of the ACM

Keeping Online Reviews Honest

As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.

How Movie-Makers Read Your Mind
From ACM News

How Movie-Makers Read Your Mind

Why is there such interest in finding new ways to gauge audience reactions?

Data Bank Struggles As Protein Imaging ­ps Its Game
From ACM News

Data Bank Struggles As Protein Imaging ­ps Its Game

Structural biology, the mapping of complex biological molecules such as proteins, is in the grip of a revolution.
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