Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Reimagining Search
Search engine developers are moving beyond the problem of document analysis, toward the elusive goal of figuring out what people really want.
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Algorithmic Authors
Natural Language Generation software begins delivering on the promise of automated prose.
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Molecular Moonshots
Synthetic biologists may be closing in on potentially world-changing breakthroughs, but they are often hamstrung by a shortage of software tools.
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Big Data Meets Big Science
Next-generation scientific instruments are forcing researchers to question the limits of massively parallel computing.
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Patient, Heal Thyself
New handheld medical diagnostic tools promise more efficient, lower-cost healthcare — but at what price?
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Out with the Old
Getting rid of obsolete data is getting more difficult, thanks to new regulations and more personal devices in the workplace.
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Revving the Rover
The new Mars rover has attracted plenty of attention for its planetary gymnastics, but the big breakthroughs are under the hood.
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Robots Like Us
Thanks to new research initiatives, autonomous humanoid robots are inching closer to reality.
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The Social Life of Robots
Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever learn to get along?
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Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.
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The Touchy Subject of Haptics
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
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Data Streaming 2.0
In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.
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Contemporary Approaches to Fault Tolerance
Thanks to computer scientists like Barbara Liskov, researchers are making major progress with cost-efficient fault tolerance for Web-based systems.
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Context-Aware Smartphones
Future generations of smartphones will be context aware, tracking your behavior, providing information about the immediate environment, and anticipating your intentions...
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