The Binary System Was Created Long Before Leibniz
There are reports of much older number systems using only two symbols that have been developed mainly in Asia.
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E-Commerce Supports Data-Driven Economic Development
The integration of "pure play" e-commerce and brick-and-mortar goods and services is accelerating.
Student Liaison Program Debuts at SIGIR 2017
The SIGIR Student Liaison Program supports an environment in which all students thrive.
Research For Practice: Technology For Underserved Communities; Personal Fabrication
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
Internet Advertising: Technology, Ethics, and a Serious Difference of Opinion
Exploring the technical and ethical issues surrounding Internet advertising and ad blocking.
Advances in audio processing help separate the conversation from background noise.
Portable Device Fears Show Power of Social Development
How do small screens impact young minds?
Off-the-shelf computer components were hardened to the extremes of space with layers of "detection, correction, and protection."
The Rise of Strategic Cyberwar?
Cyberwar is not simply a lineal descendant of strategic air power; rather, it is the next face of battle.
Electronic eavesdropping is becoming ever more nefarious in the age of smartphones and digital devices.
Will Quantum Computers Surpass Encryption?
The fundamentally different paradigm of quantum computation will require fundamentally different security.
It’s Not the ‘Why’ Chromosome, It’s the ‘How’
Women do like the raw technical aspects of computer science.
Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to gain insights into factors that lead to poverty and other social problems.
Scribe: Deep Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence to Caption Speech in Real Time
We discuss how our Scribe system combines human labor and machine intelligence in real time to reliably convert speech to text with less than 4s latency.
Technical Perspective: Humans and Computers Working Together on Hard Tasks
"Scribe," by Walter S. Lasecki, et al., is one of the first in a recent set of crowdsourcing papers that demonstrated how human workers can collaborate with computing systems to accomplish a real-time task that is difficult for either one to do by itself.
Computational math and biology yield sophisticated guidance for public health officials.
Not only that, facial recognition technologies inform him of who you are and what you did.
Artificial intelligence promises to change aspects of music ranging from rock concerts to advertising jingles.
With its "unique capabilities," virtual "James" is designed to interact with people regarding the delivery of a service.
I summarize my first three years of research as an assistant professor on studying and building tools to support people who are learning computer programming.
In Memoriam Peter Wegner: 1932-2017
Wegner made significant contributions to the theory of object-oriented programming.
Academic Supercomputer Seeks a Top 10 Ranking
A second-generation academic supercomputer aims to break into the top rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Chip Technology Could Help the Blind, Robots, See
Bio-inspired designs that encode light as time are ushering in systems as efficient as human neurology.
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