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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Trademark Issues Could Derail New gTLDs at ICANN Meeting
The introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) could be hindered by a variety of factors, including trademark protection, costs, and cybersecurity threats...
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W3c Posts Draft Standard For Local Database Storage
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has drafted the Indexed Database API, a proposed standard for a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that could...
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'snowflock' Project Tackles Vm Management
University of Toronto computer science researchers at the school's recent Research In Action event demonstrated a cross-section of the exploratory technology projects...
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nlimited Compute Capacity Coming, IBM Says
IBM Canada Lab director Martin Wildberger predicts that unlimited computing capacity will become a reality in the near future, putting the power of modern mainframes...
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MIT Researchers Developing Robotic Driving Companion
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA), a robot that would act as a helpful...
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New ICANN Agreement Runs Into Criticism
There has been some concern that the new agreement between ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce will not provide enough accountability. Under the new agreement...
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Industry Body Forming to Address It Graduate Skills
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is creating the Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA), a new body designed to help ensure that educational institutions around...
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MIT Creating Microchip That Could Restore Vision
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a microchip that could be used with wireless technology and eyeglasses equipped with a camera...
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City 2.0: It Will Make Cities More Engaging and Energy-Efficient
Cities will be transformed by WiMax, smart grids, social networks, and other emerging technologies, once they are cohesively integrated. WiMax is seen as a critical...
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Dhs Report: It Sector Is Resilient Against Serious Cyberattacks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released a report that outlines several scenarios in which attacks against vital elements of the U.S.'s IT infrastructure...
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Budget, Personnel Cutbacks Could Be a Cause of It Outages
When eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit suffered a worldwide outage early last month, Sailrite Enterprises Inc., a sailing supply company based in Churubusco, Ind., lost its...
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Trying to Woo Partners, Cloud Computing Vendors Show Them the Money
One of the early promises of software-as-a-service and cloud computing was that it would allow start-ups to directly market their Web services while skipping the...
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China Pushes Chinese Domain Mames
China has pushed ahead with deploying Internet domain names written in Chinese as it urges action to standardize their use globally. China has solved most of the...
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Haptics: The Feel-Good Technology of the Year
Touchscreens are already being implemented in cell phones and are expected to sweep through mobile and desktop computing, but a pair of Silicon Valley companies...
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Yale Researchers Create Database-Hadoop Hybrid
Yale University professor Daniel J. Abadi has led the development of HadoopDB, an open source parallel database management system (DBMS) that combines the data-processing...
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Researchers Bring Web Access to Developing Regions
University of Waterloo researchers have released a beta version of Vlink, an open source technology that is designed to provide robust and inexpensive Web access...
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The Internet Is Incomplete, Says its Co-Designer, Vinton Cerf
Google Internet evangelist Vinton Cerf, the co-designer of the Internet's TCP/IP protocols along with Robert Kahn, says the Web continues to lack many of the basic...
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Are Computers Transforming Humanity?
Researchers and technologists agree that computer technology is fueling significant changes in individuals and society as a whole, and the endpoint is unknown.
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City 2.0: Using Tech Building Blocks in Tomorrow's Urban Centers
Ubiquitous wireless networks, sustainable data centers, the development of the smart energy grid, and the commonality of city-supplied social networks are bringing...
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