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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Getting a Grip on Online Buzz
Big-name companies increasingly recognize the importance of discussions about their products on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. But keeping track...
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Searching For Disease Clues in Genetic Diversity
Over the last few years, scientists have discovered hundreds of genetic variants linked to disease. But the vast majority of that research has focused on people...
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What's Inside the Ipad's Chip?
Despite widespread speculation, nothing beyond what Steve Jobs announced last week is known about the A4 chip at the heart of the Apple iPad. Jobs described the...
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New Life For Magnetic Tape
Music lovers may have long forsaken them, but magnetic tapes still reign supreme when it comes to storing vast amounts of digital data. And new research from IBM...
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Trading Shares in Milliseconds
Today's stock market has become a world of automated transactions executed at lightning speed. This high-frequency trading could make the financial system more...
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Splitting p Search
Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according...
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Faster Maintenance with Augmented Reality
In the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to slip on a pair of augmented-reality (AR) goggles instead of fumbling with a manual while trying to repair...
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Greener Computing in the Cloud
Researchers say that custom data centers being built for cloud computing systems are very energy efficient. "There are issues with property rights and confidentiality...
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Finding the Right Piece of Sky
At the recent ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 conference, Microsoft Research's Visual Computing Group presented SkyFinder, a search system designed to analyze images of the sky...
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Supercomputer Visuals Without Graphics Chip
The obsolescence of graphics-processing clusters is being hastened by the rapidly accelerating data processing speed of supercomputers. Scientists at Argonne National...
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Five Futuristic Interfaces on Display at Siggraph
ACM's SIGGRAPH 2009 conference will showcase a quintet of innovative interface models. University of Tokyo researchers have created a touchable holographic interface...
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Adding Meaning to Millions of Numbers
True Engineering Technology has developed semantic technology that gives meaning to numerical data to prevent number-related mixups. The company has launched Numberspace...
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Helping Robots Get a Grip
Columbia University robotics researchers Peter Allan and Matei Ciocarlie have developed a new way to control a dexterous robotic hand. The researchers realized...
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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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