Making Sense of Real-Time Behavior
Data captured by sensors worn on the human body and analyzed in near real-time could transform our understanding of human behavior, health, and society.
Sarah Underwood
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Mechanism Design Meets Computer Science
A field emerging from economics is teaming up with computer science to improve auctions, supply chains, and communication protocols.
Celebrating the Legacy of Plato
The PLATO@50 Conference marked the semicentennial of the computer system that was the forerunner of today's social media and interactive education.
Gödel Prize and Other CS Awards
Sanjeev Arora, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, and other researchers are recognized for their contributions to computer science.
Looking Beyond Stereoscopic 3D’s Revival
Researchers working in vision and graphics are attempting to develop new techniques and technologies to overcome the current limitations in stereoscopic 3D.
An Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra
The computer science luminary, in one of his last interviews before his death in 2002, reflects on a programmer's life.
Wireless Technology Hits the Road
The recently approved IEEE 802.11p wireless communication standard for vehicles could improve traffic safety by supporting the delivery of information that helps drivers avoid collisions or take evasive action.
Personal Robots: Newest Cs1 Teaching Tool
The Institute for Personal Robots in Education has developed a curriculum, software, and plug-in board for an off-the-shelf personal robot that it hopes will make computer science more tantalizing to undergraduates.
Cellphone Serves as Learning Platform For the Developing World
The cellphone, the fastest growing technology platform in the developing world, is delivering educational content to children in out-of-school settings in rural, underdeveloped areas.
Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These seven articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.
Advice to Members Seeking ACM Distinction
ACM's Distinguished Member Recognition Program recognizes members in three categories: Educator, Engineer, and Scientist. Each category comes with a unique set of criteria.
ACM joined forces with the British Computer Society to deliver its first academic research conference in Europe.
Charles P. Thacker talks about the importance of simplicity, reusable tools, thinking broadly, and his practice of Tom Sawyering.
Countries use Internet censorship to dominate the political dialogue, but also to create favorable conditions for government-controlled businesses.
Sharing Computational Perspectives
Computer scientists are now making intellectual contributions to a wide range of other disciplines, including evolutionary theory, physics, and economics.
Mainstreaming Augmented Reality
Advancements in computer vision, object recognition, and related technologies are leading to new levels of sophistication in augmented-reality applications and presenting new ways for humans to relate to the natural world.
Eric Brewer's latest project involves designing and deploying low-cost wireless infrastructure in developing regions.
Programming ‘boot Camp’ Offers Basic Training
John Stamey is a drill-sergeant to computer science students at Coastal Carolina University. Everyone in first-semester programming must write 370 programs. Student performance has improved dramatically.
IBM Exploring Voice-Driven Web For the Developing World
IBM Research India has launched the Spoken Web, a network designed to use phones, not computers, to bring information on the Web to mainly under-served populations.
What Motivates Volunteer Computing Contributors? It Depends
Contributors to "volunteer computing" projects such as Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo are motivated by enjoyment, the desire to 'do good,' to gain knowledge, or by the project's scientific objective, researchers say.
An Interview with Ed Feigenbaum
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Edward A. Feigenbaum, a pioneer in the field of expert systems, reflects on his career.
Robin Milner: The Elegant Pragmatist
Remembering a rich legacy in verification, languages, and concurrency.
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
The electrical grid isn't the only utility acquiring intelligence, as water and gas meters throughout the U.S. gain radio communication capabilities and other innovations.
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