The Semantic Web has been slow to catch on with enterprises, but Cambridge Semantics chief technical officer Sean Martin believes big data could give Semantic Web...Information Week From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2012
Google's stated mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible. To achieve this goal the company needs to utilize experience...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2012
Drilling down to more detail on a computer screen, or moving out to see the context, is basic. But it's hardly simple and, after 20 years, innovations are still...Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2012
The FBI sees social media as a potential breeding ground for securities fraud, and has agents scouring Twitter and Facebook for tips, according to two top agents...Reuters From ACM News | November 28, 2012
The semantic Web has not reached blockbuster status, but it still has champions in the Apache Software Foundation and the World Wide Web Consortium. W3C recently...InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2012
All Google services, including its search engine, Gmail and Maps, were inaccessible in China on Friday night and into Saturday, the company confirmed.The New York Times From ACM News | November 9, 2012
A new research paper out of Google describes in some detail the data science behind the the company's speech recognition applications, such as voice search and...GigaOm From ACM News | November 2, 2012
A few weeks ago, Thomas Goddard, a community college student in Santa Clara, Calif., and a devoted supporter of President Obama, clicked on mittromney.com to check...The New York Times From ACM News | November 1, 2012
Apple's iPhone and its rivals may have introduced touchscreens to the masses, but now a raft of technologies promise to change the way we interact with computers...BBC News From ACM News | October 24, 2012
Google's Street View maps are headed into the backcountry. Earlier this week, two teams from Google strapped on sophisticated backpacks jammed with cameras, gyroscopes...NPR From ACM News | October 24, 2012
Intel made its fortune on the chips that power personal computers, and Microsoft on the software that goes inside. Google’s secret sauce is that it finds what you...The New York Times From ACM News | October 24, 2012
Disney's Touché project could transform every conductive surface into a touch-control surface.Tom Geller From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2012
We're used to the idea of "peak oil"—that there's only a finite amount of that stuff in the ground. What's the equivalent in the computing field?The Guardian From ACM News | October 23, 2012
A few months ago Google shared with us another challenge it had taken on. It wasn't as fanciful as a driverless car or as geekily sexy as augmented reality glasses...Smithsonian magazine From ACM News | October 22, 2012
During the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Olympic games in London, a musical performance culminated with a stage-set house rising into the rafters to reveal...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | October 22, 2012
If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age—a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you...Wired From ACM News | October 19, 2012
Everyone agrees health care in the United States is a colossal mess, and IBM is betting that artificially intelligent supercomputers are just what the doctor ordered...Wired From ACM News | October 17, 2012