AI Pioneer John Mccarthy, 1927-2011
Artificial intelligence pioneer and Lisp creator John McCarthy, who received the A.M. Turing Award in 1971, passed away on October 23. He was 84.
Jack Rosenberger
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Two Low-Cost Tablets For India’s Schools
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Proton-Based Transistor Breakthrough
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Why Creative Ideas Are Rejected (and What You Can Do About It)
If you want your creative idea to be accepted, you might want to downplay how creative it is, according to researchers.
A new DARPA program is teaching cameras visual intelligence — how to spot and understand human behavior.
Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces
Researchers are demonstrating advances in restorative BCI systems that are giving paralyzed individuals more effective ways to communicate, move, and interact with their environment.
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A high school student wins first prize from ACM for developing a faster keyboard layout.
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Data Mining ncovers New Connections Between Health Problems
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Kinect Assists At-Risk Older Adults
Kinect and other computer technology, like Doppler radar, are being used to detect the early onset of illness and the risk of falling in older adults.
Understanding and Improving Crowdsourcing Models
A network of researchers are attempting to create more efficient and useful crowdsourcing models that could be used to predict everything from terrorist attacks to changes in societal eating habits.
New Supercomputer Benchmarks Overdue?
The yardstick used to identify the world’s best-performing supercomputers–the Linpack Benchmark–no longer reflects "real-world usage" and ought to be replaced with a new metric, says Allan Snavely.
A Breakthrough in Algorithm Design
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have devised an algorithm that might be able to solve a certain class of linear systems much more quickly than today's fastest solvers.
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Replicating Human Errors to Test Network Security
University of Southern California researchers have developed a system for testing the security of computer networks by making computers simulate the type of human errors that leave networks vulnerable.
Trust Develops ‘science Base’ For Cybersecurity
University of California, Berkeley's TRUST is developing a cybersecurity "science base"– a principled approach to developing trustworthy systems in which security is an integral part and not "bolted on like an afterthought."
Franz Alt, one of the founders of ACM and its president from 1950 to 1952, died July 21, 2011 at the age of 100.
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If 10% of a social network is strongly committed to an opinion, that’s enough to rapidly convert the uncommitted 90% to adopt their point of view, according to a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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