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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Digital Twin Technology a Powerful Tool but Requires Significant Investment, Say Experts
Researchers say digital twin technology can play a significant role in predictive and precision medicine and in improving decision-making for aerospace systems....
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Fed Takes Closer Look at Creating Digital Money
The U.S. wants to make sure it has a prominent seat at the table as the rules of future cross-border payments are drawn.
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Vulnerabilities in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Let Hackers Bypass Firewalls
A security researcher found 12 fragmentation vulnerabilities and aggregation attack exploits in Wi-Fi systems.
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Is 5G Opening Security Holes in the Internet of Things?
The new 5G networks increase hacker access to the Internet of Things.
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An NTSB for Cyber Attacks?
Critics grapple with Biden's Cybersecurity Safety Review Board plan.
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Microsoft Pushes into Growing Grocery Tech Market with Deal in China
Microsoft's Chinese branch has announced its latest omnichannel retail push to develop cloud-based software for store operators.
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Getting Down to Basics
2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman helped develop formal language theory, invented efficient algorithms to drive the tasks of a...
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Deceiving AI
The uncanny power of machine learning can be turned against it.
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Jack Minker (1927–2021)
ACM Fellow Jack Minker was a leader in the development of automating logistic reasoning, but he is perhaps best known for his efforts to promote the social responsibility...
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Let the Algorithm Decide?
Algorithms fail their first test to replace student exams.
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Does Correcting Online Falsehoods Make Matters Worse?
A Twitter field experiment found that after corrections to tweeted misinformation, there was an increase in retweeting lower-quality and more partisan news.
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Highly Sensitive LiDAR System Enhances Autonomous Driving Vision
A new Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system can enhance weak signals reflected off faraway objects.
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Helping Robots Learn What They Can and Can't Do in New Situations
University of Michigan researchers have developed a method of helping robots to predict when the model on which they were trained is unreliable.
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Scientists Bring Sense of Touch to a Robotic Arm
Scientists conferred a sense of touch to a robotic arm that provides tactile feedback directly to a paralyzed man's brain.
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'Blind' Robot Successfully Navigates Stairs
A "blind" bipedal robot trained in a simulator by Oregon State University (OSU) researchers can negotiate varying terrain, including the climbing of stairs.
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Novel Approach Identifies Genes Linked to Autism, Predicts Patient IQ
Researchers have identified a novel computational approach for identifying genes most likely associated with autism spectrum disorders.
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U.S. Has Almost 500,000 Job Openings in Cybersecurity
The U.S. Commerce Department's Cyber Seek technology job-tracking database and the trade group CompTIA count about 465,000 current U.S. cybersecurity job openings...
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Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo
Researchers at the University of Chicago (UChicago) have developed a wireless, nose-worn device that can enable directional smell using tiny electrical impulses...
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