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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Policing the Future
Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.
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Stanford Schooling - Gratis!
Stanford University's experiment with online classes could help transform computer science education.
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Computer Science Awards
Scientists worldwide are honored for their contributions to design, computing, science, and technology.
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question...
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Syrian Opposition Seeks to Wipe the Assad Name Off the Map--Via Google
Syrian activists are using Google's Map Maker crowdsourcing software to oppose the Assad regime by renaming streets and landmarks after their revolutionary idols...
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How to Predict the Spread of News on Twitter
Bernardo Huberman and colleagues at Hewlett-Packard's Social Computing Lab have developed an algorithm that can predict how popular new stories will become.
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ACM Fellows Inducted
Forty-six men and women are recognized as 2011 ACM Fellows.
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The Social Life of Robots
Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever learn to get along?
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The War Against Botnets
Increasingly sophisticated botnets have emerged during the last several years. However, security researchers, businesses, and governments are attacking botnets...
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The Science of Better Science
Researchers are exploring networked computational analysis, formal classification, and topic modeling to better identify relevant scientists, ideas, and trends.
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Linux Adoption Grows on Big Data, Cloud, Virtualization: Survey
New and veteran users of Linux continue to embrace the platform at the expense of Windows and Unix, according to a recent report from the Linux Foundation.
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John McCarthy, 1927 - 2011
Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
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Analyzing Apple Products
Researchers untangle the complex web of Apple's global supply chain — and offer lessons for managers and policymakers trying to chart the future course of U.S....
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Celebration Time
The centennial celebrations of Alan Turing's birth might help turn a quiet British genius into an iconic global hero.
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Law and Disorder
International law has always been a murky and Byzantine area. However, the Internet and digital technology have raised the stakes, the risks, and the challenges...
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Revamping Storage Performance
Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.
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Better Medicine Through Machine Learning
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.
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Renci and Duke to Build Experimental Networking Infrastructure
Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and IBM are leading a project to build a nationwide testbed for networking and networked cloud...
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Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011
Colleagues recall the creator of C and codeveloper Unix, an unassuming but brilliant man who enjoyed playing practical jokes on his coworkers.
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