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ACM Turing Award Honors Bob Metcalfe for Ethernet
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention… From ACM CareersAn 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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What a Win or Loss on Mars Will Mean
Anyone who's looked at the "Seven Minutes of Terror" trailer for next month's Mars landing might have wondered whether the planners behind NASA's $2.5 billion Mars...
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DARPA-Funded Researcher Can Take Over Android And Nokia Phones By Merely Waving Another Device Near Them
Smartphones' growing adoption of so-called "near field communications" promises to let the device in your pocket wirelessly make payments, beam info to other phones...
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Broader Horizons
ACM's Committee for Women in Computing (ACM-W) is widening its reach to involve women in industry as well as academia, including community college faculty and students...
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Advertising Gets Personal
Online behavioral advertising and sophisticated data aggregation have changed the face of advertising and put privacy in the crosshairs.
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DARPA Shredder Challenge Solved
The eight-person winning team used original computer algorithms to narrow the search space and then relied on human observation to move the pieces into their final...
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Cosmic Simulations
With the help of supercomputers, scientists are now able to create models of large-scale astronomical events.
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Obama Was Right: The Government Invented the Internet
Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government's investment in education and basic infrastructure...
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Russia's Top Cyber Sleuth Foils S Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals
It's early February in Cancun, Mexico. A group of 60 or so financial analysts, reporters, diplomats, and cybersecurity specialists shake off the previous night's...
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Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device
Stuart Crabb, a director in the executive offices of Facebook, naturally likes to extol the extraordinary benefits of computers and smartphones.
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Nothing But Net? Basketball Science Has More Answers
In a multibillion-dollar sport like basketball, one might expect that trainers had figured out every nuance of aerodynamics, mechanics and all things Newtonian...
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Apple v. Samsung: The Patent Trial of the Century
Samsung Electronics Co. recently leapfrogged Apple Inc. as the world's largest seller of smartphones.
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Intel Fights to Keep Hp, Dell, and Other Customers from Defecting
Some of chip colossus Intel's biggest customers and partners are exploring a competing microprocessor design, signaling the start of a much-anticipated tech donnybrook...
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Will Wright Wants to Make a Game Out of Life Itself
For almost 30 years, Will Wright’s creations have attracted people who would never have played videogames. He's also managed the trick of developing games that...
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Minister Stresses Iran's Ability to Confront All Spy Malwares
Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology Reza Taqipour announced that Iran has successfully confronted sophisticated spy malwares and thwarted...
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Would German-Style Apprenticeships Work in the .s.?
In a world of high youth unemployment, where the supply of skilled labor often fails to match employer demand, Germany believes help can be found in its Dual Vocational...
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Aclu: 'reasonable Suspicion' Not Good Enough For Gps Tracking
If you're a student of the privacy and tech law worlds (or you just read Ars) then you're probably familiar with last year's Supreme Court decision, Jones v. United...
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Study: Wikileaked Data Can Predict Insurgent Attacks
Insurgencies are amongst the hardest conflicts to predict. Insurgents can be loosely organized, split into factions, and strike from out of nowhere. But now researchers...
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The Brave New World of Tomorrow's Tablets
Tablets with paper-thin screens that can be folded and tucked into your back pocket, artificial intelligence and augmented reality—the stuff of science fiction...
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