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The good news is the video game industry is exploding, with a global market that was expected to exceed $35 billion by year-end 2004. The bad news is the legion of programmers working under pressure to churn out hits for the game industry is burning out at a rapid rate. A recent survey by the […]
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Notice of Intent to De-Charter Professional Chapters

ACM is considering the de-charter of the following chapters due to inactivity. Members interested in revitalizing their chapters should contact Lauren Ryan, Local Activities Coordinator, at local_activities@acm.org. ACM will terminate the chapters listed below after 90 days unless interested volunteers express a desire to reactivate their chapter by redoing their bylaws and preparing acceptable revitalization […]
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Notice of Intent to De-Charter Student Chapters

ACM is considering the de-charter of the following chapters due to inactivity. Members interested in revitalizing their chapters should contact Lauren Ryan, Local Activities Coordinator, at local_activities@acm.org. ACM will terminate the chapters listed below after 90 days unless interested volunteers express a desire to reactivate their chapter by redoing their bylaws and preparing acceptable revitalization […]
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Sigs Announce Candidates For Election

In accordance with ACM Bylaw 6, the following SIGs will hold elections this spring: SIGACT, SIGAda, SIGAPL, SIGAPP, SIGART, SIGBED, SIGCAS, SIGDA, SIGDOC, SIGEcom, SIGGRAPH, SIGITE, SIGKDD, SIGMETRICS, SIGMICRO, SIGMIS, SIGMOBILE, SIGMOD, SIGMultiMedia, SIGPLAN, SIGSAC, SIGSIM, SIGSOFT, SIGUCCS and SIGWEB. ACM Policy and Procedures require that those SIGs holding elections notify their membership of candidates […]
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Six airports in the U.S are currently beta sites for the latest in checkpoint security. A $150,000 high-tech detection portal called the Ionscan Sentinel II can identify traces of more than 40 types of explosives and related chemicals, as well as over 40 types of narcotics. Here’s how it works: A traveler steps into the […]
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ACM Annual Report For Fy04

ACM’s global influence as a professional society to which the IT community turns for vital scientific information and professional leadership and guidance was never more evident than in FY04. And as I reflect on my two years as ACM’s president, I find the manner in which the Association has consistently and conscientiously responded to the […]
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The DSL Forum, an international broadband consortium, told BBC News there were 78 million high-speed network subscribers worldwide at the end of June 2004; and expected the year-end total to reach 100 million. To appreciate the phenomenal recent growth rate, the consortium points out that four years ago there were only about one million subscribers […]
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Computational biologists at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center have created an anti-spam filter inspired by the way scientists analyze genetic sequences. BBC News reports the formula automatically learns patterns of spam vocabulary with a proven 96.5% success rate. Indeed, in a recent test the filter misidentified only one message in 6,000 as spam. The formula, […]
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The U.S. State Department is ready to roll out new passports using embedded digital photos against the advice of federal researchers, industry experts, and privacy proponents, who warn face recognition technology has shown an unacceptable error rate. The Washington Post reports the department chose face recognition to comply with the U.N.-affiliated International Civil Aviation Organization, […]
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A group of 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Laureates, has called for the "restoration of scientific integrity in federal policymaking," charging the U.S. government with imposing strict controls on researchers who want to share ideas with colleagues in other countries. The Union of Concerned Scientists issued a report in July claiming current government policies could […]

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