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Mar 6 2012

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.

John Langford

Computing Applications

Mar 6 2012

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.

Paul Hyman

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 1 2012

Policing the Future

Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.

Samuel Greengard

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

police vehicles and officers at crime scene

Mar 1 2012

Stanford Schooling – Gratis!

Stanford University's experiment with online classes could help transform computer science education.

Paul Hyman

Computing Applications

Mar 1 2012

Computer Science Awards

Scientists worldwide are honored for their contributions to design, computing, science, and technology.

Jack Rosenberger

Computing Applications

Apple Senior Vice President Jonathan Paul Ive

Mar 1 2012

Gaining Wisdom from Crowds

Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.

Neil Savage

Computing Applications

Mar 1 2012

Computing With Magnets

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.

Gary Anthes

Architecture and Hardware

Feb 21 2012

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.

Paul Hyman

Computing Profession

Feb 14 2012

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.

Gregory Goth

Education

Feb 7 2012

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.

Paul Hyman

Computing Applications

Feb 1 2012

Revisiting ACM Europe

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.

Fabrizio Gagliardi

Computing Applications

Feb 1 2012

The Social Life of Robots

Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever learn to get along?

Alex Wright

Architecture and Hardware

CMU TRESTLE project robotic assembly system

Feb 1 2012

ACM Fellows Inducted

Forty-six men and women are recognized as 2011 ACM Fellows.

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Feb 1 2012

The War Against Botnets

Increasingly sophisticated botnets have emerged during the last several years. However, security researchers, businesses, and governments are attacking botnets from a number of different angles — and sometimes winning.

Samuel Greengard

Computing Applications

Feb 1 2012

The Science of Better Science

Researchers are exploring networked computational analysis, formal classification, and topic modeling to better identify relevant scientists, ideas, and trends.

Gregory Goth

Computing Applications

Jan 30 2012

Researchers Corral Chip Power-Performance Requirements

Researchers are exploring ways to improve the energy efficiency of microprocessor hardware and software as next-generation chips and languages grow even more power-hungry.

Gregory Goth

Architecture and Hardware

University of Texas at Austin professor Kathryn McKinley

Jan 24 2012

Open-Source Surgical Robot Fuels niversity Research

U.S. researchers have developed a new, open source robot — said to be the first of its kind — that is now facilitating robotic laparoscopic surgery research at seven different universities.

Paul Hyman

Architecture and Hardware

Jan 17 2012

Will Tablets Replace Laptops?

Tablets like the iPad 2 are hot … and apparently so hot that 46% of respondents believe they will eventually eliminate the need for laptop computers, according to a new poll of 1,155 American adults.

Paul Hyman

Architecture and Hardware

Jan 10 2012

What Fueled Twitter’s Success?

Innovators anxious to see their software products go viral might want to take a close look at how Twitter—which is said to have more than 300 million users worldwide—accomplished that feat.

Paul Hyman

Computing Applications

Jan 1 2012

John McCarthy, 1927 – 2011

Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.

Paul Hyman

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jan 1 2012

Analyzing Apple Products

Researchers untangle the complex web of Apple's global supply chain — and offer lessons for managers and policymakers trying to chart the future course of U.S. industry.

Alex Wright

Computing Applications

Jan 1 2012

Better Medicine Through Machine Learning

Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.

Neil Savage

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

comparison of rib-suppressed temporal-subtraction images

Jan 1 2012

Law and Disorder

International law has always been a murky and Byzantine area. However, the Internet and digital technology have raised the stakes, the risks, and the challenges.

Samuel Greengard

Computing Applications

South Korean official at cyberattacks briefing

Jan 1 2012

Celebration Time

The centennial celebrations of Alan Turing's birth might help turn a quiet British genius into an iconic global hero.

Sarah Underwood

Computing Applications

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