Next in Live Entertainment: Watching People Code
Streaming video of developers as they code is gaining a growing audience.
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An intelligent keyboard can tell who you are, and power itself from your typing.
What was once centralized or federated technology governance is increasingly participatory.
Designing Statistical Privacy For Your Data
Preparing data for public release requires significant attention to fundamental principles of privacy.
While the ability to find and access information remains a critical goal of the ACM Digital Library, it will move to a space in which interaction becomes a possibility. The space will contain people, datasets, software, simulations, publications, and more.
Despite the wonders of the human brain, it does not appear to have a convenient way to grow processing capacity while we can achieve that objective with our artificial computers by adding memory or adding processors.
Privacy Implications of Health Information Seeking on the Web
A revealing picture of how personal health information searches become the property of private corporations.
Guido van Rossum speaks exclusively with CACM about the computer language Python, which he created a quarter-century ago.
Socializing with Robots at Ginza
Modern social robots are making their debut in our daily lives.
Verifying Computations Without Reexecuting Them
From theoretical possibility to near practicality.
Online Privacy: Regional Differences
How do the U.S., Europe, and Japan differ in their approaches to data protection — and what are they doing about it?
Using Technology to Help People
Companies are creating technological solutions for individuals, then generalizing them to broader populations that need similar assistance.
Is Information Technology Destroying the Middle Class?
While optimists argue that though technology always destroy jobs, it also creates new jobs, pessimists argue that the speed in which information technology is currently destroying jobs is unparalleled.
ACM delivers the TechNews computer science and technology newsletter to nearly 100,000 ACM members three times each week.
Unmanned aerial vehicles, long used by the military, are entering the commercial sector in growing numbers. Who is going to fly them?
Computer Security: Who You Gonna Call?
Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) stand ready to battle ever-more-sophisticated cyberthreats.
Energy Harvesting Extends Life of Small Devices
Capturing ambient energy can keep off-grid devices running.
Recommended SF Reading For Computer Scientists
Courtesy of a SIGCSE 2014 BOF, here are some SF books containing themes of special interest to computer scientists.
Interactive Intent Modeling: Information Discovery Beyond Search
The system should let users incrementally direct their search toward relevant, though not initially obvious, information.
You would be surprised by how much they know about you, and what they are doing with your information.
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