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The Google Formula For Success
From ACM Careers

The Google Formula For Success

Can Google’s winning ways be applied to all kinds of businesses?

Hong Kong Protesters ­se a Mesh Network to Organise
From ACM News

Hong Kong Protesters ­se a Mesh Network to Organise

Hong Kong's mass protest is networked. Activists are relying on a free app that can send messages without any cellphone connection.

Radio Waves Offer Cheap Gesture Detection on Smartphones
From ACM News

Radio Waves Offer Cheap Gesture Detection on Smartphones

A research project at the University of Washington shows a way to add gesture control to phones without requiring sophisticated new sensors.

Putting the Squeeze on Quantum Information
From ACM TechNews

Putting the Squeeze on Quantum Information

Researchers have demonstrated that information stored in quantum bits can be exponentially compressed without losing data. 

A Computer Scientist Tells Mathematicians How To Write Proofs
From ACM Opinion

A Computer Scientist Tells Mathematicians How To Write Proofs

Believe it or not, I do have friends who would describe themselves as not liking math, and every so often one of them will share this meme on Facebook: And then...

Geo-Ranking the Internet
From ACM TechNews

Geo-Ranking the Internet

Many factors can affect how resilient and durable access to the Internet can be in a given country, and a pair of German researchers have defined nine factors that...

Still Seeking the Optical Transistor
From Communications of the ACM

Still Seeking the Optical Transistor

Optical information handling is a critical staple for communications and the Internet, but using light for computer-scale computation remains a distant dream.

Museums Go High-Tech with Digital Forensics
From Communications of the ACM

Museums Go High-Tech with Digital Forensics

Scientists are using cutting-edge scanning and visualization techniques to wow visitors and find new stories in ancient artifacts.

The New Digital Medicine
From Communications of the ACM

The New Digital Medicine

Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.

The Power of Memory
From Communications of the ACM

The Power of Memory

In-memory databases promise speedier processing.

Weathering a New Era of Big Data
From Communications of the ACM

Weathering a New Era of Big Data

Increased computing power combined with new and more advanced models are changing weather forecasting.

The Solace of Oblivion
From ACM News

The Solace of Oblivion

October 31, 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman named Nikki Catsouras slammed her father's sports car into the side of a concrete toll booth in Orange County, California...

Tiny Robot Learns to Fly a Real Plane
From ACM News

Tiny Robot Learns to Fly a Real Plane

A small, hobby-sized robot could herald the pilot of the future.

Video Games Could Dramatically Streamline Education Research
From ACM TechNews

Video Games Could Dramatically Streamline Education Research

Washington State University researchers have developed a computational modeling method for conducting research on science curricula in classrooms. 

Googlex to Circle the Earth With Internet-Connected Balloons
From ACM TechNews

Googlex to Circle the Earth With Internet-Connected Balloons

GoogleX's Project Loon aims to provide wireless Internet access to billions of people living in remote locations by building a ring of balloons around the Earth...

New Rfid Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects
From ACM News

New Rfid Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects

Mobile robots could be much more useful in homes, if they could locate people, places and objects.

Scientists Make Quantum Leap, Teleport Data from Light to Matter
From ACM News

Scientists Make Quantum Leap, Teleport Data from Light to Matter

We're one step closer to creating the Ansible communicator in "Ender's Game," the warp drive envisioned by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre and a "Star Trek"...

A Sense of Technology
From ACM News

A Sense of Technology

Researchers are working to add smell, taste, and touch to the digital world, but significant challenges remain.

Robots That Learn Through Repetition, Not Programming
From ACM News

Robots That Learn Through Repetition, Not Programming

Eugene Izhikevich thinks you shouldn't have to write code in order to teach robots new tricks.

New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind
From ACM Careers

New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind

Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the...
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