The Limitations Of Crowdsourcing: On The Hunt For The Boston Bombers
Crowdsourcing demonstrated some of its limitations after the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Therapists and researchers are experimenting with robots to interact with children with autism; the technology, and the technique, could revolutionize the field.
Opening the Doors of Deception
IT managers may incorporate a variety of deceptive tactics into their protective strategies to fend off hackers.
How Can Computing Become More Accessible?
A growing number of tools and strategies are available to make computers and digital content accessible to people with disabilities.
Advances on multiple fronts are bringing big improvements to the way computers learn, increasing the accuracy of speech and vision systems.
Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus
The possibility of a new $200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
ACM Honors Computing Innovators
ACM's awards celebrate achievements in networks, information retrieval, multi-agent systems, computer science education, versatile compiler technologies, and more.
The Future Is Flexible Displays
Manufacturers hint that bendable screens are coming soon, but academics argue that many engineering challenges remain.
The Reporting Gap on the Patent Gender Gap
It's hard to tell whether women are obtaining more science and engineering patents than they used to, when several reports on the subject can't seem to agree.
Getting rid of obsolete data is getting more difficult, thanks to new regulations and more personal devices in the workplace.
Computer-Automated Traffic Control
Smarter cars and smarter roads are paving the way to smoother, safer traffic
nique School For Coders: Tuition-Free – ntil You’re Hired
A new school for programmers stands behind the ability of its students to find jobs — if you can't find one within a year, tuition is free.
Gaze-Based Inattention Management
How do you reduce distractions to office workers, while satisfying their need to stay current?
Commercial drones are poised to revolutionize a wide range of industries, though regulatory and privacy concerns have created some resistance.
It Jobs Market: The Trends Behind the Statistics
Today's IT jobs market is far from uniform, but some trends stand out. Employers are under pressure to fill positions, salaries are being pushed up, and tony tech firms are going all out with perks to attract and retain talent.
A Few Good Reasons to Publish in Communications
The relationship ACM has with the computing community itself is ultimately less important for ACM than the need to continue offering valuable services to you, the reader and member of this community.
Researchers are making headway with one of quantum computing's major theoretical problems: multi-prover interactive proofs.
Engineers are reinventing electronics by building safe devices that dissolve in the body or within the environment. The technology could redefine everything from medicine to computing.
‘Small Data’ Enabled Prediction of Obama’s Win, Say Economists
"Big data" from crowdsourcing resulted in more complex predictions.
John C. Reynolds, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor emeritus John C. Reynolds passed away at age 77.
Software Engineer David Notkin, 1955 – 2013
David Notkin, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, recently passed away after a long battle with cancer.
Battery Backups Can Lower Datacenter Energy Costs
Researchers at Penn State say that datacenters can cut up to 40 percent off their energy costs by provisioning UPS battery backup devices to meet peak energy requirements that may never occur.
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