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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Traveling the Web Together
Researchers from the College of William & Mary have developed real-time collaborative browsing (RCB) software that makes it easier for users to interact with each...
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Cell Phones That Listen and Learn
A cell phone would be able to track the behavior of its user with SoundSense, new software developed by Dartmouth College researchers. SoundSense automatically...
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Extracting Meaning From Millions of Pages
University of Washington researchers have developed an automated information extraction software engine that mines meaning out of more than 500 million Web pages...
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The Display That Watches You
Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems researchers have developed a new screen technology that uses interlacing photodetector cells and display pixels to...
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Google Explores 'eyes-Free' Phones
The screens on many mobile phones can leave a user feeling distinctly vision impaired, especially if her attention is divided between tapping virtual buttons and...
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Faster Internet on the Road
Researchers at Rutgers University's Winlab and NEC Laboratories have developed R2D2, a system designed to improve Wi-Fi wireless Internet access when traveling....
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How IBM Plans to Win Jeopardy!
IBM researchers are developing Watson, a natural-language processing system that will compete against human players in a game of Jeopardy! Demonstrations of the...
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How to Find Bugs in Giant Software Programs
University of Calgiari researcher Michele Marchesi and colleagues have developed a way that software developers can allocate resources to error correction. Marchesi...
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Are Your 'secret Questions' Too Easily Answered?
The "secret questions" that protect online accounts and passwords may be far less secure than commonly believed, largely because their answers are often far too...
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A Blueprint to Stop Browser Attacks
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) researchers will present a new way of defending against cross-site scripting attacks at the upcoming IEEE Symposium on Security...
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Cutting-Edge Robots Show Off in Japan
Researchers from around the world are meeting at a conference in Kobe, Japan, to discuss recent advancements in robotics. Among those on display will be RiSE, a...
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Sensors See More Productivity in Workers sing Face-to-Face Interactions
Office workers who make time to chat face to face with colleagues may be far more productive than those who rely on e-mail, the phone, or Facebook, suggests a study...
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Flexible Displays May Be Stretched Over Curved Surfaces
A team of University of Tokyo researchers led by professor Takao Someya has engineered a stretchable display by linking organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and...
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Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing
A new approach electronic-paper developed by Philips offers fresh hope for color e-paper displays that are so bright and clear that even traditional liquid crystal...
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How to Make (robot) Friends and Influence People
A team from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab at the United Arab Emirates University has created a robot with its own Facebook page in an effort to enable the...
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Sending Cell Phones Into the Cloud
Intel Research Berkeley scientists Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis have developed CloneCloud, a cloud computing-based clone of smartphones that can handle large...
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Touch Screen Adds Tactile Pop-p Buttons
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have developed sensor feedback technology that features buttons that pop out from a touch-screen surface. The technology...
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Device Allows Smartphones to Capture and Display ltrasound Images
Washington University in St. Louis computer engineers have developed an ultrasound device that can be plugged directly into a smartphone's USB port. The device...
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Intel Preps Tool For Many-Core Processors
Later this year Intel will release a research project code-named Ct, short for C for Throughput, that will automatically make standard C and C++ compilers work...
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