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
Study: Facebook Relies on Good Design to Retain Users
University of Washington graduate student Parmit Chilana recently interviewed Facebook engineers and design specialists to learn how they develop and deploy new...
From ACM TechNews
New Research Could Mean Faster Computers and Better Smart Phones
University of Gothenburg researchers have found that graphene and carbon nanotubes could help reduce the size and power consumption of electronic circuits.
From ACM TechNews
Russian Whizzes Win Global Collegiate It Contest
The St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics has won this year's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, besting 111 other teams from...
From ACM TechNews
Individual Typing Style Gives Key to User Authentication
The unique typing styles of computer users could be used for authentication, according to Queensland University of Technology researcher Eesa Al Solami.
From ACM News
Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.s. Is Still Vulnerable
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure...
From ACM News
Nasa Stresses New Mission
Putting U.S. astronauts aboard private spacecraft originally was intended to accelerate the pace and slash the cost of manned exploration. But now, National Aeronautics...
From ACM News
Nine Things You Should Know About Facebook's Ipo
The social network priced its shares at $38 apiece, valuing the company at $104 billion.
From ACM News
The Average Person Alive During Wwii and Now on Facebook Has 42 Friends
People who are older than 75 have seen the world do some crazy things. They were born during or before Hitler's rise to power, lived through the deprivation and...
From ACM News
Hot Trend in Computing: Chips That Sometimes Get It Wrong
Professor Krishna Palem of Rice University utilized a revolutionary form of computing known as "probablistic computing" to create a microchip that uses 30 times...
From ACM News
Mind-Controlled Robot Arms Show Promise
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature ...
From ACM News
Why Flipping Through Paper-Like Pages Endures in the Digital World
When Instapaper developer Marco Arment updated his popular offline reading app for the iPad, something was different. Instapaper's normal pagination action—rendering...
From ACM TechNews
Floating Robots Use Gps-Enabled Smartphones to Track Water Flow
University of California, Berkeley researchers have developed the Floating Sensor Network project, which offers a network of mobile sensors that can be rapidly...
From ACM News
Nasa Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous...
From ACM TechNews
Smart Phones Are Changing Real World Privacy Settings
Tel Aviv University researchers have found that smartphones are challenging traditional concepts of privacy, especially in the public arena.
From ACM TechNews
Cloud Services Satisfy a Higher Calling
The Internet2 NET+ project recently announced the addition of 16 cloud services to its NET+ program, which is aimed at reducing the barriers to research.
From ACM News
Here Comes the Sunstorm
With a peak in the cycle of solar flares approaching, U.S. electricity regulators are weighing their options for protecting the nation's grid from the sun's eruptions—including...
From ACM News
Scientists Read a Galaxy's Entrails
Astronomers are taking a long, deep look at one of the best-known galaxies beyond our own Milky Way, to learn more about what happened when it gobbled up another...
From ACM News
Facebook's Prospects May Rest on Trove of Data
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history. Now what?
From ACM TechNews
Font for Digits Lets Numbers Punch Their Weight
Researchers at the St. Andrews and Calgary universities have developed FatFonts, a font that offers a way to write numbers so that their areas equal their numerical...
From ACM TechNews