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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The Making of Facebook’s Graph Search
Graph Search could help Facebook grow from a tool for entertainment and communication into a search tool that could challenge Google's search dominance.
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Hardware Trick Could Keep Cloud Data Safe
The new Ascend chip could protect data in the cloud by concealing the way in which central processing units request information in cloud servers.
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Emergency Alert Study Reveals Metadata’s Better Side
Cellphone metadata offers real-time information in emergency situations that could help first responders and protect the public.
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Nanoscale Chip Design Enables Future 'internet of Things'
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...
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The Job Market of 2045
Rice University professor Moshe Vardi predicts that by 2045 artificial intelligence machines will be able to perform a significant percentage of human work. "We...
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Declarations of Cyberwar
Debate continues to be focused on how cyberattacks relate to war and foreign policy and what the international community's appropriate response to such incidents...
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The Biometric Wallet
Hitachi and Fujitsu have pioneered a new technique in which a person's vein configurations are scanned as proof of identity, and the technology is being integrated...
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Fixing the Brain With Computers
Disabilities such as epilepsy, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Parkinson’s disease are being treated with neuroimplants, says St. Louis University...
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Robotics Trends For 2012
IEEE's Erico Guizzo and Hizook.com founder Travis Deyle make several predictions regarding what will be big news in robotics this year.
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The Future of Riots
On 6 August, peaceful protests over the police shooting of a local man in London's Tottenham district exploded into full-blown riots. During four days of assaults...
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The Making of Arduino
How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm.
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Pr2 Can Now Fetch You a Sandwich From Subway
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Technische Universitat Munchen have given a robot common sense.
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The Top 11 Technologies of the Decade
The January 2011 issue of IEEE Spectrum reviews the most important innovations that came of age in the past 10 years, based on their influence, usefulness, and...
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Computing the Scene of a Crime
The use of fingerprints, shoeprints, handwriting, and other forensic evidence may seem like good science—but often it's not, as it relies heavily on humans for...
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Telepresence Robot Replaces Editor at Ieee Spectrum
With several companies offering telepresence robots to act as people's proxies at the office, IEEE Spectrum magazine investigated their use earlier this year by...
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Infoglut: The Disease of the New Millennium
Information, the very thing that makes it possible to be an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, or any other kind of information worker, is threatening our ability to...
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