The State of Computing Education in the World: Report on the 2014 ACM Education Council Meeting
The ACM Education Council gets together once a year to share initiatives and results, and promote computing education.
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Still Seeking the Optical Transistor
Optical information handling is a critical staple for communications and the Internet, but using light for computer-scale computation remains a distant dream.
Museums Go High-Tech with Digital Forensics
Scientists are using cutting-edge scanning and visualization techniques to wow visitors and find new stories in ancient artifacts.
Reading News with Maps By Exploiting Spatial Synonyms
Use this map query interface to search the world, even when not sure what information you seek. (View a related original video at https://vimeo.com/106352925.)
Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase
This collaboratively edited knowledgebase provides a common source of data for Wikipedia, and everyone else.
Researchers are working to add smell, taste, and touch to the digital world, but significant challenges remain.
Seeking Human Cyber Consciousness
An American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur is using computer science to advance towards "the coming age of our own cyber consciousness and techno-immortality."
Google and Edx Put ‘youtube For Courses’ Platform on Hold
Their collaboration opens the edX platform to some new organizations, but individuals will have to wait a while longer.
Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.
ACM-Infosys Foundation Award recipient David Blei recalls the origins of his famous topic model, its extensions, and its uses in areas that continue to amaze him.
Security, Cybercrime, and Scale
Defense begins by identifying the targets likely to yield the greatest reward for an attacker's investment.
Online Deception in Social Media
The unknown and the invisible exploit the unwary and the uninformed for illicit financial gain and reputation damage.
Would Turing Have Passed the Turing Test?
A recent Turing-Test competition was won by a chatterbot pretending to be a teenage boy. The media was abuzz, claiming a machine has finally been able to pass the Turing Test. The real question, however, is whether the Turing Test is at all an important indicator of machine intelligence.
Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.
Beer Taps the Internet of Things
Industry-specific technology tracks how quickly kegs are drained and help purveyors charge for every last drop.
Alternatives For the Mouse-Averse
Controlling computers with gestures offers greater potential than a mouse ever could.
And, what flavor of reality do you prefer: standard, augmented, virtual...
Quality Software Costs Money – Heartbleed Was Free
How to generate funding for free and open source software.
To destabilize terrorist organizations, the <code>STONE</code> algorithms identify a set of operatives whose removal would maximally reduce lethality.
Example-Based Learning in Computer-Aided STEM Education
Example-based reasoning techniques developed for programming languages also help automate repetitive tasks in education.
Surgical Robots Deliver Care More Precisely
Computer-controlled robotic surgical systems and tumor-targeting radiation systems provide a greater level of precision in treatment than doctors alone can provide.
Quantifying Eventual Consistency with PBS
Eventual consistency is often "good enough" for practitioners given its latency and availability benefits. In this work, we explain this phenomenon and demonstrate that eventually consistent systems regularly return consistent data while providing lower latency than their strongly consistent counterparts.
Technical Perspective: Getting Consensus For Data Replication
The following paper is a breakthrough in which the authors offer a formula to calculate the probability of reading data that was not written by one of the K most recent writes.
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