Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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Web Surfing in a Wireless Network of Your Very Own
Not long ago Web browsing required sitting in one place and using a computer plugged into a cable. Now, people expect to hop online whenever they want using wireless...
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Ray Ozzie on the Potential of Cloud Computing
Wired magazine writer and author Steven Levy interviews Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie about the value of cloud computing and how it will...
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Ray Ozzie on the Potential of Cloud Computing
Wired magazine writer and author Steven Levy interviews Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie about the value of cloud computing and how it will...
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Google and the Evolution of Search: What's Next in Search? Much, Much Better Search
For many years, Google, on its Explanation of Our Search Results page, claimed that "a site's ranking in Google's search results is automatically determined by...
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Google and the Evolution of Search: What's Next in Search? Much, Much Better Search
For many years, Google, on its Explanation of Our Search Results page, claimed that "a site's ranking in Google's search results is automatically determined by...
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Google and the Evolution of Search: Cheating the System
In the second of three interviews with members of the Google team responsible for overseeing search algorithms at the company, Google software engineer Matt Cutts...
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Google and the Evolution of Search: Cheating the System
In the second of three interviews with members of the Google team responsible for overseeing search algorithms at the company, Google software engineer Matt Cutts...
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Berners-Lee: We No Longer Fully nderstand the Web
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the Web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behavior. He discusses the Web Science Research...
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Berners-Lee: We No Longer Fully nderstand the Web
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the Web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behavior. He discusses the Web Science Research...
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Google and the Evolution of Search: Human Evaluators
Google has acknowledged that its search results are no longer solely and automatically determined by the company's vaunted algorithms. Indeed, sources say the company...
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Google and the Evolution of Search: Human Evaluators
Google has acknowledged that its search results are no longer solely and automatically determined by the company's vaunted algorithms. Indeed, sources say the company...
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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character...
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Q&A: Corrado Priami Explains Why Computer Science Is Systems Biology's Best Foundation
"Computer science is the best candidate for laying the foundation of systems biology, and not mathematics as it has been thought so far," says University of Trento...
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Dawn M. Taylor on Brain-Computer Interfaces
Brain-computer interface research is finally starting to take off because the expansion of computer capacity has broadened people's ability to digitize and process...
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Robert Kahn: A Different Kind of Internet
Robert E. Kahn of the nonprofit Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) envisions an Internet that manages information rather than just moves it around...
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Internet Scientist Says, You Can't Hack Data From Militaries. Then Who Did and How?
An acclaimed Internet scientist in China has said that there is no way hackers could access top-secret data by penetrating the firewalls of military or government...
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Flaws in Web's Much-Touted Wolframalpha
When a free Web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders...
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An Interview with Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg tallied a long list of awards and achievements before being named recipient of the 2008 ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computer Sciences at...
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An Interview with Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg tallied a long list of awards and achievements before being named recipient of the 2008 ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computer Sciences at...
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