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Visualization Streams For ltimate Scalability
In this era of big data, the world needs tools that can visualize the most important aspects of data without having to hold it all in memory.
Software-Defined Batteries Take Charge
Researchers are exploring a new generation of batteries that rely on software to define performance.
A Digital Agent to Manage Your Travel
A prototype digital travel agent uses machine learning and optimization techniques, among others, to develop personalized travel "trajectories."
Speeding Delivery By 3D-Printing Products
Online mega-retailer Amazon appears to be exploring the use of 3D printing to get products to consumers faster.
What About Statistical Relational Learning?
While Stuart Russell's review article "Unifying Logic and Probability" (July 2015) provided an excellent summary of a number of attempts to unify these two representations, it also gave an incomplete picture of the state of the art.
Technical Perspective: In-Situ Database Management
"NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files" investigates extending a DBMS so it can use the file data in situ, without having to load it first.
NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files
We here present the design and roadmap of a new paradigm in database systems, called NoDB, which do not require data loading while still maintaining the whole feature set of a modern database system.
Digital maps can be engineered to adapt to a person's unique interests and experience in geographic space.
Connecting mathematical logic and computation, it ensures that some aspects of programming are absolute.
Smart Data Pricing: Using Economics to Manage Network Congestion
Economic incentives that alleviate congestion for Internet customers can also improve business performance for network operators.
Internet Use and Psychological Well-Being: Effects of Activity and Audience
The connection between online communication and psychological well-being depends on whom you are communicating with.
Scientists are developing smart, sensor-packed dressings to help heal chronic wounds.
Technology Brings Online Education in Line with Campus Programs
Whether sitting in front of a screen or in a classroom, online and campus-based institutions want to verify students actually attend classes, take exams.
Balancing statistical accuracy and subject privacy in large social-science datasets.
A new study suggests using smartphones to capture the sounds of brushing one's teeth, to determine if you are doing it right.
Cerf Cites Challenges Facing the Internet of Things
Moving the Internet of Things forward will require, among other things, standards, the ability to configure massive numbers of devices, and a healthy dose of paranoia.
New systems can help you not only learn to understand a second language, but how to pronounce it correctly.
A metro map can tell a story, as well as provide good directions.
Why People Post Benevolent and Malicious Comments Online
Explaining motivations for online comments, this study looks to help establish a positive, nonthreatening online comment culture.
Hidden In-Game Intelligence in NBA Players’ Tweets
Sentiment analysis helps detect NBA players' pre-game moods from their tweets and predict their on-court performance.
Companies Proactively Seek Out Internal Threats
Organizations must balance their concerns with the protection of employee privacy.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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