Communications of the ACM
Why the Simplex Method, at Age 75, is Still the Go-To Algorithm
Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis… From ACM NewsAn 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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Remaking American Medicine
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Invasion of the Mobile Apps
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
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Los Alamos Builds Time Machine to the Way the Web Was
Researchers at the Los Alamos Research Library and Old Dominion University have developed Memento, a technical specification that embeds the concept of time into...
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London Police Use Flickr to Identify Looters
As rioting continues to roil the streets of London, local police forces are turning to the Web to help unmask those involved in the torching and looting. On...
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Web Search Is Ready For a Shakeup, Says w Computer Scientist
University of Washington (UW) professor Oren Etzioni recently called on the international academic community and engineers to be more ambitious in designing how...
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Can Microsoft Make You 'bing'?
Mike Nichols has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible...
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Google Looks For the Next Google
Google thinks it can be young and crazy again. And it is betting $200 million that it is right.
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Life, Translated
The Holy Grail of language translation is to develop a machine-based system that can handle the task transparently and accurately.
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A New Benchmark For Artificial Intelligence
Computers are unable to defeat the world's best Go players, but that may change with the application of a new strategy that promises to revolutionize artificial...
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Old Dominion U. Researchers Ask How Much of the Web Is Archived
Old Dominion University researchers, led by professor Michael L. Nelson, are trying to determine how much of the public Web is archived and where it is being stored...
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Google Takes On Friend Sprawl
Google Inc. launched its most ambitious social-networking effort yet, broadening a battle with Facebook Inc. to grab the attention of Web users and future advertising...
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New Project Could Improve Results From School Web Searches
Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers have launched a partnership aimed at improving Internet search results for teachers and students...
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Researchers Turn Twitter Into Real-Time Sports Commentator
Rice University researchers, led by Siqi Zhao, say that Twitter can offer an accurate commentary of a sporting event that is accurate to within a few seconds of...
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Google to FTC: Bring It On
Google on Friday staked out its position in what could be a long antitrust battle over how the company conducts its core business.
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Ftc to Serve Google With Subpoenas in Broad Antitrust Probe
The Federal Trade Commission is poised to serve Google Inc. with civil subpoenas, according to people familiar with the matter, signaling the start of a wide-ranging...
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Brave, New Social World
How three different individuals in three different countries — Brazil, Egypt, and Japan — use Facebook, Twitter, and other social-media tools.
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Weighing Watson's Impact
Does IBM's Watson represent a distinct breakthrough in machine learning and natural language processing or is the 2,880-core wunderkind merely a solid feat of engineering...
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Web Addresses Enter New.era
On Monday, the organization that regulates the world's Internet domain names—yes, there is central coordination—approved changes that could allow anyone to register...
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