Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM TechNews
Google Patents Tech to Serve Ads Based on Background Noise
Google has received a patent for technology that would enable it to deliver advertising based on what it calls "environment conditions."
From ACM TechNews
Cryptography Pioneer: We Need Good Code
Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer of public-key cryptography, told the recent Black Hat Europe conference that a good plan to secure software is needed in the age of...
From ACM TechNews
Activist-Backed Collaboration Platform Set for March Release
A functional prototype of the Global Square, a social network collaboration platform for activists, will be available by March.
From ACM TechNews
Nsa Releases a Security-Enhanced Version of Android
The U.S. National Security Agency has released a security-enhanced version of Android. SE Android enforces stricter access control policies than those available...
From ACM TechNews
Five Open Source Technologies For 2012
Five open source projects could become the basis for new businesses and industries in 2012.
From ACM TechNews
Usenix: Dartmouth Updating Diff, Grep Unix Tools
Dartmouth University researchers are updating the grep and diff Unix command line-based text analysis tools available in all Linux and Unix distributions to handle...
From ACM TechNews
Obfuscated Code Contest Returns
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest recently launched a challenge for the first time in five years, asking participants to write bizarre and unnecessarily...
From ACM TechNews
German Court Rules Users Can Modify Free Software
Advocates of free software are hailing a decision by a German court to prevent a DSL router vendor from blocking a software maker from altering the device's Linux...
From ACM TechNews
Researchers Defeat CAPTCHA on Popular Web Sites
Stanford University researchers have developed an automated tool that can decipher Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs)...
From ACM TechNews
Google Launches Dart as a Javascript Killer
Google announced the launch of a preview version of Dart, an object-oriented Web programming language that has capabilities that resemble those of JavaScript but...
From ACM TechNews
Nsa Extends Label-Based Security to Big Data Stores
The National Security Agency recently submitted Accumulo, new label-based data store software, to the Apache Software Foundation, hoping that more parties will...
From ACM TechNews
'global Camera' Links Photos Taken By Thousands
Cornell University professor Noah Snavely is leading an effort to develop a "global camera," software that mines pictures from Flickr and combines them to create...
From ACM TechNews
Ibm Speeds Storage With Flash: 10b Files in 43 Minutes
IBM researchers have created a data storage system that can scan 10 billion files in 43 minutes, using flash memory to store the metadata, which the storage system...
From ACM TechNews
Xbrl Group Offers Cash Prize For Open Source Tools
XBRL U.S. has created a competition to encourage the development of better tools that work with the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard for financial...
From ACM TechNews
Google Builds Developer Tool to Flag Web App Vulnerabilities
Google has released DOM Snitch, an experimental extension for its Chrome browser that enables developers to scan Web applications and flag code that could be exploited...
From ACM TechNews
Planetlab Creates a More Advanced Sudo
A new program from Princeton University stands to give data center administrators far greater control over what end users can and cannot access on a computer.
From ACM TechNews
Researchers Develop 3D Graphics Capability For Firefox
Researchers have incorporated faster software for generating three-dimensional (3D) images into Firefox and plan to release the modified version of the browser...
From ACM TechNews
Ibm Speeds p Data Analysis With New Algorithm
Researchers at IBM's laboratories in Zurich have developed a new algorithm that can sort, correlate, and analyze millions of random data sets in minutes.
From ACM TechNews
New Groovy Cozies p to Java, Sql
SpringSource recently released version 1.7 of Groovy, a dynamically compiled computer language that runs on Sun Microsystems' Java Virtual Machine (JVM). By running...
From ACM TechNews