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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Diversity Computing Conference Hits Record Attendance
Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) chair Pam Williams said this year's Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference was the best gathering...
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Smartphones Seen as Eventual Target of Computer Virus Attacks
Northeastern University researchers say that smartphones will soon be targeted by viruses on a massive scale, but a study by the researchers could provide a way...
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Microsoft Cooking p New Parallel Programming Language
Microsoft is developing a new language for parallel programming called Axum. Previously known as Maestro, Axum is an incubation project intended to help programmers...
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DARPA Wants AI Systems to Interpret Surveillance Data
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced an effort to create powerful artificial intelligences (AIs) that can mine and interpret...
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Cloud Computing: Changing the Way We Work
Cloud computing has the potential to create irreversible changes in how computers are used around the world, says David Carrera, director of the Cloud Computing...
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Companion Robots Will Improve Elderly People's Quality of Life in Smart Homes
The Companionable project is working to improve the quality of life of elderly and disabled people through robots designed to operate in intelligent homes. The...
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Researchers Use Brain Interface to Post to Twitter
In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter — just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long, his message,...
From ICT Results
Semantic Design Promises To Save Time, Raise Productivity
A pioneering semantic engineering environment developed by European researchers offers a more flexible, scalable and user-orientated means of managing design data...
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Method For Verifying Safety Of Computer-Controlled Devices Developed
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a new method for systematically identifying bugs in aircraft collision avoidance...
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Robots Are Narrowing the Gap With Humans
Robots are gaining on us humans. Guided by increased computing power, robots can now perform such tasks as picking up and peeling bananas, landing jumbo jets, steering...
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Funding Supports Diamond-Based Quantum Information Processing and Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) scientists say that diamonds could revolutionize quantum mechanics in computing by enabling ultra-secure communications...
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H-1b Visas Cuts U.S. Tech Wages By Up to 6 Percent, Study Says
A new study from professors at New York University (NYU) and the University of Pennsylvania found that the use of H-1B workers by U.S. companies has decreased wages...
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Netbook Chips Create a Low-Power Cloud
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have successfully used a cluster of the same low-power processors that are used in netbooks and mobile devices to create...
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Student Innovations Honored at Chi Conference
ACM's recent Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2009) conference gave computing students an opportunity to show off the technology they are developing and how it could...
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Harnessing Spammers to Solve AI Problems
Some Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) security systems are already being solved by spammers, but CAPTCHA co...
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Technarte to Showcase Innovative Art/Tech in Bilbao
Technarte, the International Conference on Art & Technology organized by Innovalia Association, will bring to Bilbao, Spain, the merge between art, science and...
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Upgraded Scientific Research Web Site Gets Nih Grant
SciVee, a Web 2.0 resource dedicated to the dissemination of scientific research and science-specific research networking, has completed a number of significant...
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Robot Communicates sing Eye Movements Alone
A team at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is trying to enable humans and robots to communicate nonverbally. Yoichi Yamazaki and colleagues have developed an...
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Bamboo Keyboards Expect to Bring Green Life to Computer sers
A company in China said it has developed a bamboo keyboard that is gaining popularity among eco-friendly consumers in Europe and North America. Jiangqiao Bamboo...
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