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.
From ACM News
New Patriot Act Controversy: Is Washington Collecting Your Cell-Phone Data?
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is weighing fresh concern about the sweeping nature of domestic spying using one controversial section of the Patriot Act...
From ACM TechNews
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...
From ACM TechNews
Rag-Trade Robots: From Body Scan to Bespoke Suit
The Leapfrog project, a collaboration of 35 industrial and academic partners from 11 countries, aims to develop completely automated clothing-production systems...
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Down with Pi! The Math Nerds Behind the Tau Movement
Happy Tau Day, everyone! Every June 28, a rogue fleet of math nerds makes its case for the abolition of arguably the most important irrational number in the world...
From ACM Opinion
The Cop on the Cyber Beat
Homeland Security's Bruce McConnell on the government's role in helping companies fight online attacks.
From ACM TechNews
Google Ideas Think Tank Gathering Former Extremists to Battle Radicalization
The Google Ideas think tank has gathered 80 former radicals, including ex-neo-Nazis, Muslim extremists, and U.S. gang members, to brainstorm ways technology can...
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Protect Your Computer and Phone from Illegal Police Searches
Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast amounts of personal information about you and your family. Can police officers enter your...
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Tamper-Proof Internet Security System Begins
A small group of Internet security specialists gathered in Singapore last week to start up a global system to make email and e-commerce more secure, end the proliferation...
From ACM TechNews
Hp Plans Apps to Simplify Human-Pc Interaction
Hewlett-Packard's Indian research lab is building applications designed to simplify human-computer interaction for enterprises in sectors such as health care and...
From ACM News
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.
From ACM News
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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DARPA Crowdsources Interstellar Travel
Last August, a bunch of Star Wars fans pestered NASA about a timetable for building a hyperdrive engine. Maybe someone was listening. In May, the Defense Advanced...
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Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin...
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Remembering Alan Turing on His 99th Birthday
Today marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a noted polymath and cryptanalyst who is regarded by many as being the grandfather of modern computing...
From ACM TechNews
PC Era Giving Way to 'Contextual Intelligence,' Say Top IT Execs
Many information technology leaders say the importance of a single type of device, such as the computer, tablet, or smartphone, is waning as more data moves to...
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Cloud Storage Providers Need Sharper Billing Metrics
Cloud service providers could be doing themselves or their customers a disservice by relying on imprecise metrics for billing, says Carnegie Mellon University researcher...
From ACM News
How to Make a Clock Run For 10,000 Years
High on a rocky ridge in the desert, nestled among 5,000-year-old bristlecone pines, is the topmost part of a clock that has been ticking for thousands of years...
From ACM Opinion
Eff and Bitcoin
For several months, EFF has been following the movement around Bitcoin, an electronic payment system that touts itself as "the first decentralized digital currency...
From ACM News
Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone
Not too long ago, theorists fretted that the Internet was a place where anonymity thrived. Now, it seems, it is the place where anonymity dies.
From Communications of the ACM