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Quantum Computing Claims Produce Uncertainty
A Canadian company developing a quantum computer made news in May when it sold a system to defense manufacturer Lockheed-Martin for $10 million, though skeptics question whether the machine made by D-Wave Systems, of Burnaby, British Columbia, could surpass conventional computers. Critics had been somewhat mollified after the company published a paper in the journal Nature showing that their processors were indeed relying on quantum mechanical effects. Nonetheless, experts are not yet convinced D-Wave has created a true quantum computer.
A New Benchmark For Artificial Intelligence
Computers are unable to defeat the world's best Go players, but that may change with the application of a new strategy that promises to revolutionize artificial intelligence.
Supercomputing’s Exaflop Target
The twin challenges of parallelism and energy consumption are enlivening supercomputers' progress.
The Holy Grail of language translation is to develop a machine-based system that can handle the task transparently and accurately.
From the Presidents of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM
As most members of our organizations probably know, there is a great deal of overlap between the products and services offered by the IEEE CS and ACM. In fact, about 27% of ACM members belong to IEEE CS.
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to bring readers high-quality articles in an online-only format. The following articles are now available to ACM members via the Digital Library.
The Importance Of Analyzing Social Intelligence
Huge amounts of data emanating from Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites, which is known collectively as “social intelligence, ” is being gathered, managed, and analyzed. The insights it creates into markets and customers has become one of today's most important business and technology trends.
Mi-Lsamp Boosts Minority STEM Enrollment
MI-LSAMP has managed to increase the number of STEM degrees awarded to minority students by nearly 50% over the last five years. In addition, it has increased overall enrollment in STEM curriculum.
Five Tips To Improve Enterprise Mobile Security
Mobile devices are increasingly connected with an ecosystem of third-party cloud and desktop services outside an enterprise's control. Here's five tips that enterprises — as well as end users — can follow to improve their mobile security.
Games and Learning: Seven Questions For Mary Flanagan
A professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth College, Mary Flanagan has spent her career thinking critically about a topic that most of us take for granted: Play.
Does IBM's Watson represent a distinct breakthrough in machine learning and natural language processing or is the 2,880-core wunderkind merely a solid feat of engineering?
Self-driving cars are inching closer to the assembly line, thanks to promising new projects from Google and the European Union.
How three different individuals in three different countries — Brazil, Egypt, and Japan — use Facebook, Twitter, and other social-media tools.
Craig Gentry, Kurt Mehlhorn, and other computer scientists are honored for their research and service.
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension which brings readers high-quality articles in an online-only format. The following articles are now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.
Five Tips For Agile Software Development
The most critical challenge for practitioners of agile software development is learning how to become a self-organizing, cross-functional agile team.
How Much Spam Does Your Company nknowingly Send?
SpamRankings.net uses "name and shame" to publicize organizations that are infected by spam bots.
World Ipv6 Day Concludes Without Major Problems
World IPv6 Day has come and gone and — as on January 1, 2000 when the world held its breath for Y2K zero hour — it's safe to say that no disaster has befallen the Internet.
The Promise of Flexible Displays
New screen materials could lead to portable devices that are anything but rectangular, flat, and unbendable.
Researchers have developed a new networking algorithm, modeled after the neurological development of the fruit fly, to help distributed networks self-organize more efficiently.
All the News That’s Fit For You
Personalized news promises to make daily journalism profitable again, but technical and cultural obstacles have slowed the industry's adoption of automated personalization.
Leslie Valiant talks about machine learning; parallel computing, and his quest for simplicity.
M. Frans Kaashoek discusses systems work, "undo computing," and what he learned from Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
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