Communications of the ACM
Why the Simplex Method, at Age 75, is Still the Go-To Algorithm
Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis… From ACM NewsAn 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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A Peek Inside China's Internet Giants and Their Massive Scale
Here's the thing about China: It's very, very big.
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North Korean Students Show Google Chief How They Search Web
Students at North Korea's premier university have showed Google's executive chairman how they look for information online: they Google it.
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Software Detects and Extracts Text From Within Video Frames, Makes It Searchable
National University of Singapore researchers have developed a method that automates the process of detecting text within video frames and extracting it from the...
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Google Cleared of Search Results Bias After 2-Year U.s. Investigation
Google has been forced by regulators in the U.S. to agree to legally binding changes to the way it presents some search results and runs its search advertising...
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Marking the Birth of the Modern-Day Internet
A long time ago, my colleagues and I became part of a great adventure, teamed with a small band of scientists and technologists in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data
In 1997, when Massachusetts began making health records of state employees available to medical researchers, the government removed patients' names, addresses,...
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Free Search Engine Connects Classrooms With Science and Technology
A mobile version of the Gooru educational search engine, which is funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, is now available. The Gooru Collections iPad app...
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China Tightens Internet Controls, Legalizes Post Deletion
China unveiled tighter Internet controls on Friday, legalizing the deletion of posts or pages which are deemed to contain "illegal" information and requiring service...
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Forget Yolo: Why 'big Data' Should Be the Word of the Year
"Big Data" hasn't made any of the words-of-the-year lists I've seen so far. That's probably because it didn't get the wide public exposure given to items like "...
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Just the Facts
In repackaging other companies' news, some news aggregators are diverting readers and ad dollars, and, critics argue, undercutting the incentive to spend money...
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Tor: An Anonymous, and Controversial, Way to Web-Surf
The Tor Project, which was created 10 years ago to hide the online activity of dissidents in countries that censor the Internet, has recently seen its popularity...
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How Google Is Taking the Knowledge Graph Global
Earlier this month, Google shared a fascinating statistic. The number of items in the company's Knowledge Graph—its database of people, places, and things, and...
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Looking at the Battle of Gettysburg Through Robert E. Lee's Eyes
Anne Kelly Knowles loves places where history happened.
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North Korea: On the Net in World's Most Secretive Nation
There's a curious quirk on every official North Korean Website: a piece of programming that must be included in each page's code.
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There's So Much Data that We're Running Out of Words to Describe It
The world is producing and storing data at such a rate that the day isn't far off when we will literally no longer have a proper way of describing it.
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Google Gets a Second Brain, Changing Everything About Search
In the 1983 sci-fi/comedy flick The Man with Two Brains, Steve Martin played Michael Hfuhruhurr, a neurosurgeon who marries one of his patients but then falls in...
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China Looks to Lead the Internet of Things
When architect James Law looks in the mirror each morning his reflection is not all that greets him—he can also see the weather report, email messages, and his...
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