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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Google Missed 'friend Thing'
Google Inc. executive chairman Eric Schmidt said one of his biggest failures as chief executive of the search giant over the last decade was grappling with the...
From ACM TechNews
Mathematically Ranking Ranking Methods
A paper on an effort to mathematically analyze three commonly-used ranking methods appears this month in the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.
From Communications of the ACM
All the News That's Fit For You
Personalized news promises to make daily journalism profitable again, but technical and cultural obstacles have slowed the industry's adoption of automated personalization...
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Siemens Scada Hacking Talk Pulled Over Security Concerns
A planned presentation on security vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems was pulled Wednesday over worries that the information in the talk was...
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Eric Schmidt: Anti-Piracy Laws Would Be Disaster For Free Speech
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, warned on Wednesday that government plans to block access to illicit filesharing websites could set a "disastrous precedent"...
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New Ways to Exploit Raw Data May Bring Surge of Innovation, a Study Says
Math majors, rejoice. Businesses are going to need tens of thousands of you in the coming years as companies grapple with a growing mountain of data.
From ACM Opinion
Why Google Does Not Own Skype
So Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest deal ever. It’s too soon to make a pronouncement on whether the purchase is an idiot move, a brilliant...
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Google's Annual Developers Conference Gets nderway
Whether or not Google makes any blockbuster announcements at its annual developers conference that starts Tuesday—a news report on Monday said it may unveil its...
From ACM TechNews
Wall Street Traders Mine Tweets to Gain a Trading Edge
Wall Street traders are using social networking sites and computer algorithms to decipher the mood of the public to predict market fluctuations.
From ACM News
Data Privacy, Put to the Test
To the catalog of corporate "bigs" that worry a lot of us little people, add this: Big Data.
From ACM TechNews
The Science of Science
Researchers at Princeton and Carnegie Mellon universities are working to harness the explosion of Web data by developing a model that enables computers to group...
From ACM TechNews
Video Content Search Gets a Boost
Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory researchers have developed TalkMiner, an online video search tool designed to make it easier to search the content of video lectures...
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A Glimpse Inside Google's Beijing Headquarters
Google may appear to be under siege in China, but a sense of normalcy—Google style—pervades the company's headquarters here.
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Google, a Giant in Mobile Search, Seeks New Ways to Make It Pay
In early 2008, in the early days of the iPhone era, Google engineers began noticing something unusual in the search engine’s logs. Owners of these new phones...
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The Really Smart Phone
Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even...
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Apple, Google Leagues Ahead in Developer Survey
Google lost some ground in its effort to catch Apple's lead in the effort to attract mobile developer interest, but other rivals aren't even close, survey data...
From Communications of the ACM
Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.
From Communications of the ACM
Data Optimization in Developing Nations
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters...
From Communications of the ACM
I, Domestic Robot
With recent advances in laser rangefinders, faster algorithms, and open source robotic operating systems, researchers are increasing domestic robots' semantic and...
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