Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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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.
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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.
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OSIRIS Project to Guide ICT Research Infrastructures
The OSIRIS project is developing an international strategy for open and sustainable ICT research infrastructures.
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Pitting Cloud Against Cloud
Tools that benchmark performance promise to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of competing cloud providers.
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How Twitter Could Better Predict Disease Outbreaks
Social media is particularly useful for anyone who wants to track the present—or predict the future.
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Letting the Machines Decide
Wall Street is notorious for not learning from its mistakes. Maybe machines can do better.
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Java Supplants IT Security as Most Sought-After Tech Skill Set, Survey Finds
Java/J2EE has become the most difficult skill set and position to fill, according to a new Dice.com survey. Java development has supplanted IT security and virtualization...
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Microsoft and Nasa Bring Mars Down to Earth Through the Worldwide Telescope
Today, Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and...
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A Turning Point For Genetic Testing
In a prelude to overhauling its regulatory oversight of genetic diagnostic testing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will convene a public meeting next week...
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Crunching Cancer With Numbers
When Danny Hillis spent a day watching a top surgeon perform keyhole cancer surgery, he was left both exhilarated and depressed. The clinical precision with which...
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Computer Technology Helps Doctors Target Underserved Patients
Multimedia talking touchscreens, housed in computer kiosks at clinics and hospitals, are helping researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine...
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2010 R&D 100 Awards Winners Announced
The editors of R&D Magazine have announced the winners of the 48th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced...
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pdated Computer Security Publication Focuses on Security Assessment Plans
NIST has published an updated set of guidelines for developing security assessment plans and associated security control assessment procedures that are consistent...
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Repeat of S. Korea, .s. Cyberattacks Does No Damage
Hundreds of computers that helped cause a wave of outages on U.S. and South Korean government websites last July launched new attacks on the same sites, but no...
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Forget India, Outsource to Arkansas
As the U.S. unemployment rate hovers near 10 percent, some companies are starting to eye job-hungry areas of the country as prime candidates for the kind of outsourced...
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IBM Research Grant Awarded For Database Enhancement Application Development
The University of Haifa's Ami and Teddy Sagy Center for the Study of the Internet has been awarded IBM's $40,000 Open Collaborative Research grant for their proposal...
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Taiwanese Companies Join on Cloud Computing For Asia
Taiwan's biggest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom, has signed an agreement with Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop maker, to jointly...
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Roll-p Computers and Their Kin
Digital reading technology has evolved from the original Amazon Kindle, which cost $400 and displayed four shades of gray, to devices that are much less expensive...
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Sleepserver Software Lets Enterprise Pcs Work While They Sleep
Personal computers in enterprise environments save energy and money by "sleep-working," thanks to new software called SleepServer created by computer scientists...
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