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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Grid Computing, the New Commodity
The European Union-funded GridEcon project has developed a platform for trading computing resources and buying and selling standardized computing resources. GridEcon's...
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Robot's Gentle Touch Aids Delicate Cancer Surgery
Canadian researchers have developed a robot capable of detecting tumor tissue in half the time it takes a human surgeon and with 40 percent greater accuracy while...
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Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts
Opinions expressed on the Internet can determine the eventual success or failure of a product, and tools stemming from the emergent field of sentiment analysis...
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Web Tools Help Protect Human Rights Activists
A new generation of Internet privacy tools is being developed to prevent governments from gathering data, such as where users access the Internet from. One tool...
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Competitions Aim to Create Interest in Cybersecurity
U.S. government, industry, and academia are using cybersecurity competitions to interest high school and college students about the career opportunities in cybersecurity...
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Study Finds that Online Education Beats the Classroom
Students' performance in online education settings tended to trounce that of those receiving face-to-face instruction, according to a study SRI International carried...
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Pay-Per-Email Plan to Beat Spam and Help Charity
Yahoo! researchers are testing a scheme in which users pay one cent for each email message they send, with the money going to charity, in an effort to cut back...
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Mobile Data Show Friend Networks
A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that friendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy by studying cellphone call records...
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Hackers Stole Ids For Attacks
Russian hackers stole U.S. identities and software tools for use in a cyberattack against Georgian government Web sites during the war between Russia and Georgia...
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Napolitano: Cybersecurity Issues Remain nresolved
U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano recently affirmed that her staff is still weighing options about how best to assimilate the public...
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Computer Scientists Take Over Electronic Voting Machine With New Programming Technique
Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the University of Michigan, and Princeton University have demonstrated that a Sequoia electronic...
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How to Build Anonymity Into the Internet
At the 9th annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, security researchers discussed alternatives to existing systems designed to help Internet users maintain...
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.s. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears
The White House is proposing to soften a long-existing prohibition on tracking how users peruse U.S. government Web sites with cookies and other methods, inciting...
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Computer 'agents' Take to the Web
Artificial intelligence agents that automatically negotiate for online shoppers, called Negotiation Ninjas, will be tested on a shopping Web site called Aroxo this...
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Rutgers niversity in Newark to Lead Nine-School Consortium to Double Minority Students Majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
Rutgers University in Newark is leading the Garden State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (GS-LSAMP), a $5 million, five-year, multiple-school project...
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Computer Science Courses on the Decline
A decline in U.S. high school computer science (CS) courses is indicated by the Computer Science Teachers Association's (CSTA's) 2009 National Secondary Computer...
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Call For Debate on Autonomous Military Robots
BBC NewsAs robots are increasingly used in warfare, civilian lives will be put at greater and greater risk, according to University of Sheffield professor NoelView...
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Research Findings Contradict Myth of High Engineering Dropout Rate
Research indicates that engineering does not have a higher dropout rate than other majors and women's persistence in the discipline is equal to men's, according...
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Communication Devices 2033
Motorola's Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) teams have speculated possible evolutionary paths that communication devices may take during the next 25 years. They...
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