Communications of the ACM
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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Can Virtual Teachers Plug the Educational Divide?
Newcastle UniversityNewcastle University professor of educational technology Sugata Mitra believes that introducing more technology to the classroom is the keyView...
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A New Vision For Scientific Visualizations
VisTrails, a suite of visualization tools developed by Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, both associate professors of computer science at the University of Utah...
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Semantics-Empowered Social Computing
The sheer scope of user-generated content (UGC) requires a level of organization in order to take advantage of the vast corpus of information and construct applications...
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Researchers Say Gazelle Browser Offers Better Security
Researchers at various universities are working with Microsoft Research to develop a more secure Web browser code-named Gazelle. The researchers recently demonstrated...
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Titanic Twisters
Significant work in the area of tornado simulation has been conducted by a team of University of Oklahoma researchers with the aid of the Texas Advanced Computing...
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Duke Software Dramatically Speeds Enzyme Design
Duke University researchers have developed software that shows experimentalists how to alter the machinery that bacteria uses to make natural antibiotics. The...
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New Bluetooth Standards to Bring Speed, Energy Efficiency
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is working on two new standards to improve the wireless technology's speed and energy use. Bluetooth SIG executive director...
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ACM Fellow Ed Catmull Garners an Oscar For Computer Graphics Leadership
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has honored ACM Fellow Ed Catmull for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership...
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A Difficult, Unforgettable Idea
On the 40th anniversary of Douglas C. Engelbart's "The Mother of All Demos," computer scientists discuss the event's influence — and imagine what could have been...
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Crowd Control
Researchers are turning to computers to help us take advantage of our own cognitive abilities and of the wisdom of crowds.
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Betting on Ideas
Advanced computational models are enabling researchers to create increasingly sophisticated prediction markets.
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Improved Sensor Technology Could Someday Keep Tabs on Terrorists By Remote Control
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) scientists are developing new optical sensors for use in unmanned air vehicles and surveillance drones that could track...
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Development of Mobile Applications Is Easy With the Elephant Platform
The Fraunhofer Institute for Communications Systems ESK's Elephant research project is a software platform that makes it easier for programmers to develop applications...
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Sensors Help Keep the Elderly Safe, and at Home
Sensors and other monitoring technologies offer senior citizens more freedom to live independently and at less risk within the home. Motion sensors, medication...
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Predicting Breakdowns
Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Lockheed Martin are working on a sensor-based monitoring system that assesses the health of a vehicle...
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Technology Will Ease Healthcare Dilemma
University of Ulster researchers predict that high-tech, home-based health monitoring will be a critical part of alleviating some of the pressures the healthcare...
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SIGGRAPH Debuts in Asia
ACM's premier computer graphics conference hosts its first-ever graphics event in Asia, with a more global focus.
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The First Internet President
Barack Obama's presidential campaign utilized the Internet and information technology unlike any previous political campaign. How politicians and the public interact...
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Nsf Looking For Wicked Cool Visual and Data Analysis Algorithms
The National Science Foundation (NSF) wants to develop highly interpretive mathematical and computational algorithms and techniques to help the U.S. government...
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