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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Students at North Korea's premier university have showed Google's executive chairman how they look for information online: they Google it.Associated Press/The Guardian From ACM News | January 8, 2013
National University of Singapore researchers have developed a method that automates the process of detecting text within video frames and extracting it from the...Phys.Org From ACM TechNews | January 4, 2013
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...The Guardian From ACM News | January 4, 2013
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.Google From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2013
In 1997, when Massachusetts began making health records of state employees available to medical researchers, the government removed patients' names, addresses,...Simons Foundation From ACM News | January 2, 2013
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....S. Office of Naval Research From ACM TechNews | December 28, 2012
China unveiled tighter Internet controls on Friday, legalizing the deletion of posts or pages which are deemed to contain "illegal" information and requiring service...Reuters From ACM News | December 28, 2012
"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 "...NPR From ACM Opinion | December 21, 2012
In repackaging other companies' news, some news aggregators are diverting readers and ad dollars, and, critics argue, undercutting the incentive to spend money...Marina Krakovsky From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2013
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...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | December 19, 2012
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...CNET From ACM News | December 18, 2012
There's a curious quirk on every official North Korean Website: a piece of programming that must be included in each page's code.BBC News From ACM News | December 18, 2012
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.NBC News From ACM News | December 17, 2012
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...Xconomy From ACM News | December 14, 2012
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...CNN From ACM News | December 13, 2012