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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Career Opportunities
What are the job prospects for today's—and tomorrow's—graduates?
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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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Supercomputer Digests Twitter in Real-Time
Specialized hardware and software could provide new insights into the social Web.
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Bendable Memory Made from Nanowire Transistors
A new type of device could ultimately hold more data than flash memory.
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Faster Websites, More Reliable Data
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed TxCache, a database caching system that eliminates certain types of asymmetric data retrieval while...
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For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play
Most baseball fans saw it as a dribbler in front of the plate, a throw to first and the completion of a no-hitter for Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay...
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IBM Scientists Give Storage Some 'panache'
IBM's Almaden Research Center is developing several advanced technologies for storage and data analysis, including Panache, a clustered file system that provides...
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Computer Scientists Cry Foul Over Data Problems in Nrc Rankings
The National Research Council's use of a computerized methodology to rank computing research doctoral programs at the behest of the Computing Research Association...
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Cell Phones Make a Touch Surface Smarter
A new system identifies users by their mobile phones.
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Researchers Say Web Searches Are Good Predictors of Success
Web searches are an indicator of the success of movies, games, and songs, according to a Yahoo! research group. Although the study found that traditional predictors...
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Google Offers JPEG Alternative for Faster Web
Google has developed a new format for Web images called WebP, which it says can reduce image file sizes by 40 percent compared to the widely used JPEG format.
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Scidac Visualizations Bring Science to the Senses
The recent SciDAC 2010 conference included a visualization competition involving attendees' best scientific visualizations from simulations run on high-performance...
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Researchers Generate Compelling Results on Tacc's Visualization Cluster
The Texas Advanced Computing Center's hardware-accelerated interactive visualization cluster, called Longhorn, is providing researchers with new visualization capabilities...
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Mapping the Brain on a Massive Scale
Scanning 1,200 brains could help researchers chart the organ's fine structure and better understand neurological disorders.
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Dust Models Paint Alien's View of Solar System
New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching...
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Personal Fabrication
Open source 3D printers could herald the start of a new industrial revolution.
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What Twitter Learns from All Those Tweets
The company's head of analytics explains how Twitter mines the data users produce.
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India Launches Project to Id 1.2 Billion People
India's vaunted tech savvy is being put to the test this week as the country embarks on a daunting mission: assigning a unique 12-digit number to each of its...
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