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Why the Simplex Method, at Age 75, is Still the Go-To Algorithm
Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis… From ACM NewsAn 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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Taskmaster Robots Watch While You Work in Case You Miss a Step
Researchers have developed a robot that can watch people work, learn the steps that make up the task, and remind people when they forget a step.
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AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans
Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.
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The Plan to Find Alien Life in Europa's Icy Seas
How do you solve a problem like Europa?
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Wearable Tech Lets Boss Track Your Work, Rest and Play
Some jobs come with a uniform. For an increasing number of employees, that uniform will soon include a badge that tracks everything they do.
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
While you are in space, could you keep a diary?
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Social Media Helps Aid Efforts After Typhoon Haiyan
Ten million people affected. Half a million displaced. Ten thousand feared dead.
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Will India Get to Mars? A Guide to the Dangers Ahead
With the successful launch just hours ago of its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India has passed the first test in its bid to orbit the Red Planet. Next up is a nail...
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Craig Venter: Why I Put My Name in Synthetic Genomes
How has the definition of life changed during your lifetime?
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Your Next Boss Could Be a Computer
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have developed AutoMan, an automated artificial intelligence-based system that can delegate tasks to human workers...
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Wired Is the New Wireless: Spreading the Web in China
It's not easy to give over 1.3 billion people access to the internet—especially if that population is spread across a vast area that ranges from hinterland to sprawling...
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Watson Turns Medic: Supercomputer to Diagnose Disease
It is more than a year since Watson, IBM's famous supercomputer, opened a new frontier for artificial intelligence by beating human champions of the quiz show Jeopardy...
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Cheap Chips Herald Future of Wave and Pay
Small, cheap smart-tag devices that are printed as digital circuits in rolls like newspapers could help kickstart the wireless payment industry. The devices, known...
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Next Xbox Could Have a Biometric Controller
The controller for the next Xbox might be able to take biometric readings of your hand, according to a recent Microsoft patent.
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Revealed
As protests against financial power sweep the world, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational...
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Light Is Not Fast Enough For High-Speed Stock Trading
Every microsecond counts in stock trading. The New York Stock Exchange handles a third of the world's stock trading—around 22 billion messages a day. But NYSE Euronext...
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Light Is Not Fast Enough For High-Speed Stock Trading
Every microsecond counts in stock trading. The New York Stock Exchange handles a third of the world's stock trading—around 22 billion messages a day. But NYSE...
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Welcome to the Age of the Splinternet
Openness is the Internet's great strength—and weakness. With powerful forces carving it up, is its golden age coming to an end?
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Cern Collides with a Patent Reality
You might imagine that vast patent royalties flow into the organisation that invented the touchscreen and the World Wide Web. But the atom-smashing outfit CERN...
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Theme-Park Dummy Trick Becomes Teleconference Tool
A trick used in theme-park animatronics could help people act more naturally during videoconferences. Shader lamps is a technique that projects an animated face...
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