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ioSemantics Launches Quality Assurance Automation Technology for Business Rules Applications Forbes, June 6, 2008 ioSemantics announced launch of a revolutionary quality assurance automation technology for business systems that is similar to the 2007 Turing Award winning technology. |
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The Top Tech Issues of the Presidential Campaign PC Magazine, June 5, 2008 At the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, hosted by ACM, the net neutrality issue generated much discussion, including comments from John McCain's special counsel Chuck Fish. |
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Computer Programs Decide Humans' Fates, Set Social Policy, Panelist Say Wired, May 22, 2008 Speaking at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference hosted by ACM, CUNY - Brooklyn computer science and philosophy professor Samir Chopra pondered whether Google's AdSense could be considered a legal agent, capable of breaking wiretapping laws. |
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A switch on telecom immunity for McCain?
msnbc via WashingtonPost.com, May 29, 2008 At last week's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in New Haven, Conn., hosted by ACM, a top lawyer for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign said telecommunications companies should be forced to explain their role in the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program as a condition for legal immunity for past wiretapping, a statement that stands in marked contrast to positions taken by President Bush, McCain and other Republicans in Congress. |
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Pumping Up the Comp Sci Pipeline ZDNet, May 28, 2008 According to Chris Stephenson, Executive Director of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), computer science-related fields remain one of the few areas of the weakening economy that are still expected to experience strong growth in the years to come. |
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2007 ACM Turing Award Winners to Speak at 45th Design Automation Conference Forbes.com, May 20, 2008 Dr. Edmund M. Clarke of Carnegie Mellon University; Dr. E. Allen Emerson of the University of Texas, Austin; and Dr. Joseph Sifakis of Verimag Labs, France have been recognized with the highest honor in the area of computing for their role in developing Model-Checking into a highly effective verification technology, widely adopted in the hardware and software industries. |
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Professor ferrets out mysteries of biology by giving computers ‘intelligence’
Stanford News Service, May 7, 2008 As a computer scientist who endows machines with artificial intelligence, Daphne Koller might seem an unlikely person to draw inspiration from the late 19th-century naturalist John Muir. |
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Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence The Gainesville Sun, May 3, 2008 Like a good gambler, Daphne Koller, a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, sees the world as a web of probabilities. There is, however, nothing uncertain about her impact. Ms. Koller was honored with a new computer sciences award sponsored by the ACM and the Infosys Foundation |
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USACM Urges Congress to Build in Safeguards for Automated Employment Checks
Trading Markets.com, May 6, 2008 At a Congressional hearing Eugene H. Spafford, chair of ACM's U.S. Public Policy Committee (USACM), cited several potential problems, some already evident, in a pilot system operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) to electronically check on employee work eligibility. |
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Computing Group Campaign Strives to Get Teenagers Into Computers
The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 5, 2008 The WGBH Educational Foundation and ACM are launching a marketing campaign aimed at encouraging college-bound high-school students to pursue careers in computer science. The two-year project, called New Image for Computing, is particularly focused on encouraging Latina girls and African-American boys to get into the field. |
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Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence The New York Times, May 3, 2008 Daphne Koller was honored with a new computer sciences award sponsored by ACM and the Infosys Foundation. The award is viewed by scientists and industry executives as validating her research, which has helped transform artificial intelligence from science fiction and speculation into an engineering discipline that is creating an array of intelligent machines and systems. |
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The math behind everything Taipei Times via New York Times News Service, May 1, 2008 Researcher Daphne Koller has used her passion for mathematical theory to help make advancements in fields as diverse as the study of traffic jams and breast tumors |
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Computers, Freedom, and Privacy:Technology Policy '08 Wired.com, April 30, 2008 This conference is an opportunity to participate in shaping issues and technological infrastructures. Expert technologists, policymakers, business leaders, and activists will address policies ranging from spyware and national security, to ISP filtering and patent reform, and e-voting to electronic medical record. |
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Seeing the math behind traffic jams DenverPost.com, April 27, 2008 Like a good gambler, Daphne Koller, the recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, is a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, and who sees the world as a web of probabilities. Her biggest accomplishment is creating a set of computational tools for artificial intelligence that can be used by scientists and engineers to do things like predict traffic jams, improve machine vision and understand the way cancer spreads. |
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Prize Wininng Scientist Wins Another Prize
Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2008 Daphne Koller, Stanford University computer scientist, after winning the MacArthur “genius grant” in 2004, kept plugging away on her ground-breaking research in an emerging niche in the field known as artificial evidence. Now she’s hauling in another prize–this time worth $150,000–that is being announced today by the Association of Computing Machinery and the India-based outsourcing specialist Infosys. |
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AI work by Daphne Koller wins inaugural ACM-Infosys award Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, April 28, 2008 Professor Daphne Koller at the University of Stanford has won the first-ever ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences. The $150,000 prize was given to the 39-year-old for her work in approaching new solutions toward designing artificial intelligence in computers. |
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Shamos: Why e-voting paper trails are a bad idea Cnet.com, April 21, 2008 Many computer scientists have been arguing for years that electronic voting machines absolutely must sport paper trails that can be verified by the voter and subsequently used in manual recounts. It is a formal policy position of the U.S. arm of the Association for Computing Machinery, the professional organization of computer scientists. |
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Reading Blogs Can Become Habitual, Like Smoking (but Safer)
Chronicle.com, April 16, 2008 A study of blog readers' behavior presented at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy this month found that for many people, checking favorite blogs is part of a routine that they feel compelled to repeat each day. |
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Computers that Measure our Emotions Il Sole 24 Ore.com, April 5, 2008 Italian site interviews CHI 2008 participants N. Sadat Shami, Christian Peter, and Regan Mandryk. |
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Computer Scientists to Congress: Don't Tell Colleges to Install Filters on Networks Chronicle.com, April 15, 2008 ACM is urging some members of the Senate and House of Representatives to oppose legislation that would encourage or require colleges to install network filters to inhibit illegal sharing of music and video files. |
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'Battle of the Brains' Crowns Top Computing College Chronicle.com, April 10, 2008 St. Petersburg State University from Russia takes first place in ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest. |
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Beginning Blog-ology msnbc.com, April 9, 2008 Article features research on blog use presented at CHI 2008. |
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Jewelry Television Software Engineers Selected to Present Case Study at Chi 2008 NewsBlaze, April 9, 2008 Presentation at CHI 2008 conference involving jewelry design reflects how broadly computing has pervaded every aspect of life. |
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Advanced Placement Computer-Science Course Hangs On Chronicle.com, April 8, 2008 USACM blog says that the College Board is eliminating only one Advanced Placement computer-science course after the 2008-9 academic year. |
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Does Computing Add Up in the Classroom? New York Times, April 1, 2008 Robert B. Schnabel, Chair of ACM's Education Policy Committee, says that "there is a real battle going on to determine the role that computing is going to play in K-12 education." |
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Carnegie Mellon's Edmund M. Clarke wins A.M. Turing Award, computing's highest honour Primeur Monthly, March 2008 This European magazine for the tech community has included an article about the recent Turing Award recipients. |
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Exploring Computers & Privacy Business New Haven, March 31, 2008 ACM Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference, May 20-23 at Yale University, will focus on technology policy. |
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Former ACM President Receives Distinguished Service Award HPC Wire, March 18, 2008 David Patterson receives ACM Distinguished Service Award for his work to advance the computing field. |
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UC Berkeley, Microsoft, Intel To Build Computer Center msnbc.com, March 18, 2008 Article references both the ACM Distinguished Service Award and Past President David Patterson's role in the new PAR Lab. |
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Does Geography Really Matter Anymore? Dr. Dobb's, March 13, 2008 The author questions the relevancy of geography in software development, pointing out that this year's Turing award winners Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis live in different corners of the world. |
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Lecturer criticizes accuracy of the voting process Daily Emerald, March 13, 2008 Former ACM President Barbara Simons says there are no good answers yet about which method really is the best. |
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Computer Teams From Around the World to Battle in Banff Next Month Canadian Press, March 12, 2008 100 teams to compete in ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest, April 6-10. |
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Guibas Receives ACM/AAAI Award for Algorithm Development Dr. Dobb's, March 4, 2008 ACM names Leonidas John Guibas as the recipient of the 2007 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award for his pioneering contributions in applying algorithms to a wide range of computer science disciplines. |
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Measuring Internet Behavior Garners Grace Hopper Award Dr. Dobb's, February 25, 2008 Vern Paxson's techniques are used to assess new communications concepts, improve network performance, and prevent network intrusion. Paxson has been named the recipient of the 2007 Grace Hopper Award from ACM. |
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Computers' model behavior journalgazette.net, February 18, 2008 Turing Award winners Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis honored by ACM for their work in software quality assurance verification technique known as model checking. |
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CNRS researcher wins prestigious computing award CORDIS France, February 13, 2008 Joseph Sifakis, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, has been named one of three Turing Award winners, along with Edmund M. Clarke of Carnegie Mellon University and E. Allan Emerson of the University of Texas. |
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Web Sites Influence Users, Even When They Don't Communicate Directly Science Daily, February 13, 2008 Co-author of study to appear in upcoming issue of Communications of the ACM says the seemingly impersonal voting, tagging, ratings and even music catalogs offered on so-called Web 2.0 sites can influence users. |
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Remembering The Search For Jim Gray, A Year Later Information Week, February 12, 2008 IEEE Computing Society, ACM, and University of California at Berkeley plan joint tribute to 1998 Turing Award winner Jim Gray, who disappeared last year while sailing from San Francisco Bay to the Farallon Islands. |
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Nobel winner was a founder of molecular biology
OregonLive.com, February 10, 2008 Josh Lederberg, who also won ACM's Allen Newell Award in 1995, helped introduce computers and artificial intelligence into laboratory research and biomedical communication. |
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Model Checking Pioneers Receive Turing Award, Most Prestigious in Computing National Science Foundation, February 8, 2008 Officials from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate cheered this week's announcement that Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis have won ACM's 2007 A.M. Turing Award, frequently referred to as the "Nobel Prize" of computing, for their work on model checking. |
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Logic Research Wins CMU Professor Computer Science Honor stickyminds.com, February 5, 2008 Turing Award co-recipient Edmund Clarke says that winning the award is "gratifying, but it doesn't equal the thrill that I had when I did the original research over a quarter-century ago and realized that it could have practical applications." |
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2007 Turing Award Winners Announced for Their Groundbreaking Work on Model Checking Dr. Dobb's Journal, February 4, 2008 Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis are the recipients of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award for their work on an automated method for finding design errors in computer hardware and software. The method, called Model Checking, is the most widely used technique for detecting and diagnosing errors in complex hardware and software design. It has helped to improve the reliability of complex computer chips, systems and networks. |
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Getting CERIAS about security Network World, January 31, 2008 Norwich University's student chapter of SIGSAC has lunchtime discussions about security; Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University, headed by Eugene Spafford, provides valuable input. |
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How I Got There: Susan St. Ledger, Senior Vice President, Salesforce.com WSJ.com, January 30, 2008 Career profile cites ACM as a useful professional organization to contact. |
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Digital Identification Plan Still Facing Many Hurdles Investor's Business Daily, January 28, 2008 "As a result of Real ID requirements, more information might be stored in a (new) set of databases that are going to be accessed by thousands of people around the country, along with some existing databases," said Eugene Spafford, chairman of ACM's US Public Policy Committee (USACM). "The combination of that information will make it easier to commit identity theft and fraud." |
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Google Fellows reveal parallel processing model InfoWorld, January 9, 2008 Google Fellows Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat have published a paper in this month's Communications of the ACM, a publication of the Association for Computing Machinery, detailing the programming model Google leverages to process more than 20 petabytes of data per day on commodity-based clusters. |
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ACM in the News 2007