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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Researchers Grow Cyberforests to Predict Climate Change
A new computer simulation grows realistic forests to determine how drought, warmer weather, and other climate-related changes will affect forests across North America...
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Ny Judge: S Cannot Make Apple Provide Iphone Data
A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Justice Department cannot use a 227-year-old law to force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data,...
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Pentagon Starts Aggressive Cyberwar Against Is
Not long after Defense Secretary Ash Carter prodded his cyber commanders to be more aggressive in the fight against Islamic State, the U.S. ramped up its offensive...
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Opportunity Mars Rover Goes Six-Wheeling up a Ridge
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is working adeptly in some of the most challenging terrain of the vehicle's 12 years on Mars, on a slope of about 30 degrees...
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Automatic Programming Makes Swarm Robots Safer and More Reliable
An automated programming method previously used in manufacturing could make swarm robots more user-friendly and more reliable.
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Computers Can Tell If You're Bored, Shows New Bsms Study
University of Sussex researchers have found computers can read a user's body language to tell whether they are bored or interested in what is on the screen.
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Internet2 at 20: Alive and Kicking
Nearly two decades since its launch, Internet2 continues to run on U.S. university campuses.
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Building Living, Breathing Supercomputers
McGill University researchers says the substance that provides energy to human cells also could be used to power the next generation of supercomputers.
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Report Cites Dangers of Autonomous Weapons
The report warns about a range of real-world risks associated with weapons systems that are completely autonomous.
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Wesley A. Clark, Made Computing Personal, Dies at 88
Clark’s computer designs built a bridge from the era of mainframe systems to personal computers.
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The Frozen Canyons of Pluto's North Pole
This ethereal scene captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft tells yet another story of Pluto's diversity of geological and compositional features—this time in...
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Google nveils Neural Network with 'superhuman' Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
Here's a tricky task. Pick a photograph from the Web at random. Now try to work out where it was taken using only the image itself.
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Facebook Is Making a Map of Everyone in the World
Americans inhabit an intricately mapped world.
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Will the Nsa Finally Build Its Superconducting Spy Computer?
The U.S. National Security Agency vision of a superconducting supercomputer may leap forward with the Cryogenic Computing Complexity program.
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Chameleon Adapts to Secure the Cloud
A minority-led group of researchers is looking to the U.S. National Science Foundation-funded Chameleon cloud platform as a tool for developing cyberattack prevention...
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Apple Encryption Stand Highlights Mobile Operators' Dilemma
Apple Inc's stance on privacy in the face of a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers has raised awkward questions...
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The Secret History of America's Cyber War
Two months earlier, Edward Snowden, a contractor with the National Security Agency, had leaked tens of thousands of highly classified documents, revealing that...
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Deep or Shallow, NLP Is Breaking Out
Neural net advances improve computers' language ability in many fields.
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Should Self-Driving Cars Have Drivers Ready to Take Over?
The day when you'll be chauffeured to work by your car may not be far off.
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