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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What Facebook Knows
If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world...
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U.s. Cities Embrace Software To Automatically Detect 'suspicious' Behavior
San Francisco is set to become the latest U.S. city to invest in software, created by Texas-based BRS Labs, that monitors and memorizes movements as they are captured...
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The Tiny Island with a Huge Web Presence
If you're among the companies vying for one of the nearly 2,000 new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, you've got big pockets. The application alone costs about...
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Amazon, Google Lead Rush For New Web Real Estate
An unprecedented land grab for new Web addresses began in earnest on Wednesday with fierce competition for new internet real estate including .app, .blog, and .web...
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Apple vs. Google: Starkly Different China Experiences
In China, sometimes having the first-mover advantage is often no advantage at all. Case in point: Apple vs. Google.
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Google Fights Back in China
Two giants on the world stage are battling over the future of information.
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Browser Choice: A Thing of the Past?
Like to pick your browser? Beware, because new mobile devices threaten to stifle the competitive vigor of the market for Web browsers on PCs.
From Communications of the ACM
Data Mining Meets City Hall
Local and national governments are turning to open data to cut their costs, increase transparency and efficiency, and respond to the needs of citizens.
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Analyzing Medical Data
Electronic patient records contain a treasure trove of data, and researchers are using natural language processing technology to mine the structured data and free...
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Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
When scientists publish their research, they also make the underlying data available so the results can be verified by other scientists.
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Iran Slams Google for Leaving Persian Gulf Nameless
Iran on Saturday criticized Google for leaving the body of water separating it from the Arabian peninsula nameless on its online map service, saying it would hurt...
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A Revamping of Bing in the Battle For Search Engine Supremacy
When Facebook goes public in the coming weeks, there will be a lot of winners. Among them is one of the stalwarts of the tech industry, Microsoft, which has a small...
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More Search Could Be Crowdsourced
MIT and Microsoft researchers determined that search engines could use crowdsourcing to expand the range of answers they provide for users. Most search engines...
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Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified
At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer...
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Automating Scientific Discovery
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.
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Robots Like Us
Thanks to new research initiatives, autonomous humanoid robots are inching closer to reality.
From ACM Opinion
Web Freedom Faces Geatest Threat Ever, Warns Google's Sergey Brin
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the Internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to...
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Google's Grand Plan
In a typical month, David Lawee meets two dozen founders of new companies. He grills them on their businesses, their ambitions, their funding, and their clever...
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