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How Games Can Lead to a Radical Redesign of Everyday Computer Use
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How Games Can Lead to a Radical Redesign of Everyday Computer Use

Polytechnic Institute of New York University researchers are using video games and human-computer interfaces to devise new ways of engaging with computers physically...

Ibm's Watson Edges Harvard Students in 'jeopardy!' Quiz
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Ibm's Watson Edges Harvard Students in 'jeopardy!' Quiz

IBM's Watson supercomputer recently defeated teams of students from Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management...

A New Chapter For E-Books
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A New Chapter For E-Books

The problem with the Harry Potter series, for me and many others, was that it had to end.

Apple Patent ­ses 3d Gestures to Control an Ipad
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Apple Patent ­ses 3d Gestures to Control an Ipad

Forget relying solely on touch to control your Apple device. On future iPads, you may be able to control your tablet from across the room using 3D gestures, such...

A Social-Media Decoder
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A Social-Media Decoder

From his 24th-floor corner office in midtown Manhattan, the veteran CBS research chief David Poltrack can gaze southward down the Avenue of the Americas, its...

Why Cgi Humans Are Creepy, and What Scientists Are Doing About It
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Why Cgi Humans Are Creepy, and What Scientists Are Doing About It

A century ago, psychologists identified "the uncanny" as an experience that seems familiar yet foreign at the same time, causing some sort of brain confusion...

Risky Business
From Communications of the ACM

Risky Business

Governments, companies, and individuals have suffered an unusual number of highly publicized data breaches this year. Is there a solution?

Hacking Cars
From Communications of the ACM

Hacking Cars

Researchers have discovered important security flaws in modern automobile systems. Will car thieves learn to pick locks with their laptops?

Modeling Chaotic Storms
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Modeling Chaotic Storms

Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them...

DARPA Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda
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DARPA Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

Mark Twain once tried to distinguish between the storyteller’s art and tales that a machine could generate. He observed that stringing "incongruities and absurdities...

From ACM News

Steve Jobs's Patents

The 317 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company's products—from...

Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer's Apprentice at Apple
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Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer's Apprentice at Apple

The deteriorating health of Steve Jobs loomed over Apple’s Oct. 4 press event at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Apple wanted the day to be all...

Steve Jobs, Apple's Visionary, Dies at 56
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Steve Jobs, Apple's Visionary, Dies at 56

Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies...

From Doom to Rage: 20 Years of Id Development
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From Doom to Rage: 20 Years of Id Development

Both Tim Willits and Matt Hooper got their start in game design as fans, creating maps for id Software games like Doom and Quake. Now, as the studio celebrates...

Policing the Digital Storage Landscape
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Policing the Digital Storage Landscape

Cyberlockers are the next frontier for storing music, movies, and other personal files on the Internet, but the entertainment industry wants lawmakers to ensure...

Will We Ever Learn to Live with Artificial Humans?
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Will We Ever Learn to Live with Artificial Humans?

How Japan's AKB48 has created a new level of artificial human—and what it tells us about the infamous Uncanny Valley.

Success at 16
From Communications of the ACM

Success at 16

A high school student wins first prize from ACM for developing a faster keyboard layout.

Living in a Digital World
From Communications of the ACM

Living in a Digital World

Technology has created new opportunities to connect and interact. Yet, researchers are increasingly concerned that heavy technology usage is changing people's behavior...

Seeing Is Not Enough
From Communications of the ACM

Seeing Is Not Enough

A new DARPA program is teaching cameras visual intelligence — how to spot and understand human behavior.

Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces
From Communications of the ACM

Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces

Researchers are demonstrating advances in restorative BCI systems that are giving paralyzed individuals more effective ways to communicate, move, and interact with...
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