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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Before Heading to Mars, Nasa's Valkyrie Humanoid Lands at MIT
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has delivered a humanoid robot to the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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Ai, Md: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Way Illness Is Diagnosed and Treated
Frost & Sullivan's Venkat Rajan observes the concept of artificial intelligence in healthcare has entered reached "early-stage commercialization, adoption, and...
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A 'big Science' Approach For Australian Cybersecurity Research?
The director of the Defense Science and Technology Group's Cyber and Electronic Warfare Division recommends a big-science approach to cybersecurity in Australia...
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Why We Won't Trust Robot Cars Until They Drive Just Like US
Eight separate research projects into autonomous vehicles will receive financial support from the U.K. government.
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Microsoft Research: Making the Wearable Battery Last Longer By Lightening Its Load
Microsoft Research has developed WearDrive, technology designed to extend the life of batteries used to power fitness bands.
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Google Retires Spdy in Favor of Http/2
Google plans to phase out its SPDY open networking protocol in early 2016 and instead support HTTP/2 in Chrome.
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Norway Internet Voting Experiment Fails
Norway has ended a pilot online voting program.
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Which Country Has the World's Best Coders? There's an Axe For That
A team of three Polish programmers won the Hello World Open 2014 worldwide programming competition.
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Microsoft Research Special Projects Group Tipped to Take on Google X
Microsoft Research's new Special Projects Group is tasked with working on disruptive technologies that could benefit both the company and society.
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W3c Boss Jeff Jaffe Explains How the Web Will Beat Smartphone Apps and Keep Growing
World Wide Web Consortium CEO Jeff Jaffe discusses how the Web will evolve to meet the challenge of smartphone users moving to closed apps.
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Open Data vs. the Flood: How High-Tech Is Helping Venice Deal With High Tides
The Acqualta project in Venice, aims to engage citizens in an effort to monitor flooding in the city's canals using open data and sensor technology.
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Researchers se Shopping Cart to Put Mobile, Nfc Payment Theft on Wheels
Researchers have found that contactless payments are more vulnerable then previously believed.
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Vote Early, Vote Often: Inside Norway's Pioneering Open Source E-Voting Trials
Norway recently held its second e-voting pilot, following an initial trial that took place during the local government elections in 2011.
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.N. Plans Internet Governance Amid Outcry to Defund IT
A petition to de-fund the United Nation's telecommunications branch recently emerged, just as the ITU was ready to finalize Internet governance plans at the World...
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Inside Stuxnet: Researcher Drops New Clues About Origin of Worm
The mysterious Stuxnet worm took center stage at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference here with a prominent security researcher dropping a raw hint that Israel may...
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ITU Head: Cyberwar Could Be 'Worse Than Tsunami'
There needs to be a global cybersecurity peace treaty to avert the threat of international cyberwar, whose effects would be more devastating than a tsunami, says...
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Intel Gets Personal About Energy Consumption Management
If Intel has its way, its technology will soon be inside not just your personal computer but inside another piece of technology that is way more ubiquitous: the...
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Korean Robot Maid Upgraded to do Laundry, Use Microwave
The prospect of a future that includes robot maids took an incremental step forward to reality. Korean scientists have created a domestic robot that cleans, dumps...
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Software Liability Law Could Divide Open Source
The European Commission has proposed that software companies should be held liable for the security and efficiency of their products. Ovum's David Mitchell says...
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