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Are Two Monitors Better Than One?
Whether workers in a data-intensive environment are more productive with a single monitor or with multiple monitors can depend on the size of the single monitor, a person's ability to be undistracted, and the number of pixels in sight.
Mobile Apps Reach Internet Tipping Point
June 2011 appears to be the first time people in the U.S. spent more time online with apps than with the Web.
Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement.
Voice recognition programs like Siri are now capable of understanding spoken commands, recognizing a conversation's context, and answering questions in a personable manner.
The goal of ACM China Council is threefold: to increase the number of high-quality ACM activities, to raise ACM's visibility, and to contribute to advancing computing as a science and profession. We can report significant progress in these areas since our 2010 launch.
Sanjeev Arora Wins 2011 Acm-Infosys Award
Sanjeev Arora, a computer scientist at Princeton University, is honored for breakthroughs that have advanced the power of computing.
Rebecca Mackinnon Discusses Threats to Internet Freedom: Part 2
Many people don't realize that most of the censorship and surveillance in China is not being done by the government, but by companies at the behest of the government, says Rebecca MacKinnon.
Rebecca Mackinnon Discusses Threats to Internet Freedom: Part 1
Rebecca MacKinnon shares insights about Internet freedom, including the roles and responsibilities of citizens, corporations, and governments.
Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus
High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck startup incubator/accelerator.
COLT/ICML Open Problems and ICML Instructions
Open problems will be presented in a joint session in the evening of the COLT/ICML overlap day. If you have a difficult, theoretically definable problem in machine learning, consider submitting it for review, due March 16.
Parkagent Seeks to Reduce Urban Traffic Congestion
Researchers in Israel and the Netherlands have teamed up to create PARKAGENT, a spatially explicit agent-based software model designed to assess and optimize urban parking policies.
Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.
Stanford University's experiment with online classes could help transform computer science education.
Scientists worldwide are honored for their contributions to design, computing, science, and technology.
Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.
Researchers are finding ways to develop ultra-efficient and nonvolatile computer processors out of nanoscale magnets. A number of obstacles, however, stand in the way of their commercialization.
Google’s Mind the Gap! Program Interests Women in CS
Two-hour sessions with female Google software engineers are convincing many female high-school students in Israel to change their majors to computer science and to consider it as a career.
Mitx Prototype Open For Enrollment
Enrollment is now open in the first course available through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MITx online learning initiative.
Researchers se Social Bots To Expand Twitter Networks and Influence People
That next tweet you receive on Twitter may not be from a person but from a social bot, a tiny program designed to mimic real users and influence their behavior.
ACM Europe was launched in October 2009 in Paris. Since then, the ACM Europe Council has grown to 21 members with a good mix of nationality (although mostly European, of course), gender, and research interests.
Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever learn to get along?
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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