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Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the U…
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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Document
Document databases are particularly useful in app development.
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NoSQL: A Beginner's Guide
What exactly is NoSQL, and why should it matter in today's hyper-connected society?
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Closing the 'Trust Gap' in Contact Tracing/Exposure Notification Technology
The digitization of contact tracing presents an array of challenges.
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Automatic Translators are Not Really Capable of Learning
One does not get the impression the Google Translate and DeepL translation programs are self-learning and have made real progress.
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Hacking the Axis
The role of early high-performance computing capabilities in World War II.
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Google Translate Does Not UÂnderstand the Content of the Texts
How well do translation programs translate?
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What Went Wrong? Facebook and 'Sharing' Data with Cambridge Analytica
The road to the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal is strewn with failures.
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Student Liaison Program Debuts at SIGIR 2017
The SIGIR Student Liaison Program supports an environment in which all students thrive.
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Keynotes at SIGIR 2017
This article summarizes the keynotes in the main session and from the Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval.
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SIGIR 2017: Diversity and Inclusion
This article describes activities to support diversity and inclusion at SIGIR 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.
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SIGIR 2017 Day 1: Neural Networks For IR
Blog on a one-day tutorial on Neural Networks at SIGIR 2017.
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ACM SIGIR 2017 Tokyo, Blog #1: Yokoso!
This is the first of a series of blogs on ACM SIGIR 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.
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What Happened?
As forecasters attempt to understand exactly what happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the data itself may hold vital clues.
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Exascale Computing and Big Data: Time To Reunite
It is past time to reunite the big data, cloud, and high-performance computing communities. Each can each learn much from the other.
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Socializing with Robots at Ginza
Modern social robots are making their debut in our daily lives.
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The NIPS Experiment
In the NIPS experiment, 10% of papers submitted to the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation went through its review process twice, with results compared...
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