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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Making Connections
Bob Metcalfe, recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his role in the development of Ethernet, briefly considered a career in tennis.
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Better Algorithms through Faster Math
The search for new algorithms that could reduce the time needed for multiplication is now at the center of data science.
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Standards to Secure the Sensors That Power IoT
Existing security standards do not always offer sufficient protection to secure the Internet of Things.
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E.U. Slaps Meta With Record $1.3 Billion Fine for Data Privacy Violations
Industry representatives argue the ruling creates legal uncertainty for many companies who commonly transfer data across international waters.
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Dark Web ChatGPT Unleashed: Meet DarkBERT
Researchers have created a large language model trained on Dark Web data.
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Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI
This could change everything.
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How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
OpenAI has new tools that give you more control over your information—although they may not go far enough.
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Synthetic Data Could Be Better Than Real Data
Some researchers envision synthetic data as not only offering content that is close enough to actual data to preserve privacy, but also enabling production of better...
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The Future of Data Storage Lies in DNA Microcapsules
An international team of researchers has added scalability to synthetic DNA data storage via a new polymerase chain reaction technique.
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Seltzer Named ACM Athena Lecturer for Technical, Mentoring Contributions
ACM has named Margo Seltzer of Canada's University of British Columbia the 2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer for her pioneering technical contributions and commitment...
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Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping Teach Big AI Systems
Reddit announced it will begin charging for access to its application programming interface.
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AlphaFold Spreads through Protein Science
Based on machine learning, DeepMind's code now lies at the heart of a variety of protein-structure tools and workflows. It may ultimately be replaced by models...
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Locking Down Secure Open Source Software
Can even secure open source software ever be considered truly safe?
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Companies Turn to AI to Avoid 'Cloud Sprawl'
Cloud-computing usage at large companies is measured in millions of records a day, making it 'humanly impossible' to keep track of costs.
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Eco-Computing: Demonstrating the Computational Power of Ecosystems
The researchers developed two types of ecological reservoir computing as a proof-of-concept that ecological networks have computational power.
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Privacy Battle Erupts Over Smart Building Sensors
A project at Carnegie Mellon University to build a secure Internet of Things infrastructure has erupted into a dispute over monitoring and privacy.
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Researchers Analyze 53 Million Points of Clinical Data with Embedding Technique
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Drexel University used a phenotype embedding technique to analyze 53 million patient notes from more than...
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MIT Turbocharges Python's Notoriously Slow Compiler
Codon lets users run Python code as efficiently as C or C++.
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. . . And the Computer Plays Along
Software can improvise on the spot to accompany the performance of live musicians.
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