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Incorporating Social Media Reviews Can Improve Surveillance of Restaurant Health Problems
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Incorporating Social Media Reviews Can Improve Surveillance of Restaurant Health Problems

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has used a system that tracks food-borne illness via online Yelp restaurant reviews to identify instances...

Exascale a 'main Priority' For Doe
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Exascale a 'main Priority' For Doe

Exascale computing is a priority for the U.S. Department of Energy, which last year alloted $258 million to research the hardware, software, and applications needed...

In ‘listening In,’ a Surveillance Expert Warns That No Secret Is Safe
From ACM News

In ‘listening In,’ a Surveillance Expert Warns That No Secret Is Safe

Smartphones, smart cars, smart fridges: all are connected to the Web, and hackers and governments alike are all too eager to peer inside.  

Big Brother on Wheels: Why Your Car Company May Know More About You Than Your Spouse. 
From ACM News

Big Brother on Wheels: Why Your Car Company May Know More About You Than Your Spouse. 

Daniel Dunn was about to sign a lease for a Honda Fit last year when a detail buried in the lengthy agreement caught his eye.

Bbva Foundation Recognizes Goldwasser, Micali, Rivest, Shamir, For Enabling a Secure Digital Society
From ACM News

Bbva Foundation Recognizes Goldwasser, Micali, Rivest, Shamir, For Enabling a Secure Digital Society

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category goes  to Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Ronald Rivest...

Making the Internet of Things Possible With a New Breed of 'memristors'
From ACM TechNews

Making the Internet of Things Possible With a New Breed of 'memristors'

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland say they have designed and fabricated the building blocks of future components for neuromorphic computers.

'holostream' Allows High-Quality Wireless 3D Video Communications
From ACM TechNews

'holostream' Allows High-Quality Wireless 3D Video Communications

Holostream is a new platform enabling high-quality three-dimensional video communications on mobile devices.

Can We Make a Hack-Proof Internet with Quantum Physics?
From ACM News

Can We Make a Hack-Proof Internet with Quantum Physics?

Is it possible to build a network that's impossible to hack? Quantum physicists believe it might.

Nasa Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula
From ACM News

Nasa Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula

Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes...

Ornl Researchers ­se Titan to Accelerate Design, Training of Deep-Learning Networks
From ACM TechNews

Ornl Researchers ­se Titan to Accelerate Design, Training of Deep-Learning Networks

Combining artificial intelligence with high-performance computing yielded a peak speed of 20 petaflops in the creation and training of deep-learning networks on...

This AI Hunts Poachers
From ACM TechNews

This AI Hunts Poachers

Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security is an artificial intelligence program that uses machine learning algorithms to predict where poaching is likely to occur...

Student Device Detects Potholes, Car Crashes
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Student Device Detects Potholes, Car Crashes

Researchers say they have developed a device that can detect car crashes and alert emergency services.

Trojan Team's Bias-Busting App Wins Third Prize at Facebook Global Hackathon
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Trojan Team's Bias-Busting App Wins Third Prize at Facebook Global Hackathon

Team Artemis of the University of Southern California won third prize at the 2017 Facebook Global Hackathon for a virtual reality tool designed to rid the workplace...

Expansion of Ap Computer Science Courses Draws More Girls and Minorities
From ACM TechNews

Expansion of Ap Computer Science Courses Draws More Girls and Minorities

The College Board's Advanced Placement computer science classes are being expanded to attract more girls and underrepresented minorities in the U.S. to participate...

Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley For Riches Back Home
From ACM Careers

Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley For Riches Back Home

A few years ago, Wang Yi was living the American dream. He had graduated from Princeton, landed a job at Google and bought a spacious condo in Silicon Valley.

"when Performance Is Pursued Above All"
From ACM News

"when Performance Is Pursued Above All"

Long-overlooked CPU vulnerabilities have come to light.

Meltdown and Spectre Expose the Dark Side of Superfast Computers
From ACM Opinion

Meltdown and Spectre Expose the Dark Side of Superfast Computers

Hundreds of gadget makers and software companies at this week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas are staking the success of their newest products...

Team's Lifesaving App Could Help Farmworkers Beat the Heat
From ACM TechNews

Team's Lifesaving App Could Help Farmworkers Beat the Heat

Calor is a new smartphone app designed to send automatic heat warnings to farmworkers in the field.

A New AI That Detects 'deception' May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It
From ACM TechNews

A New AI That Detects 'deception' May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It

The Deception Analysis and Reasoning Engine uses artificial intelligence to autonomously detect deception in courtroom trial videos.

Scanning an Ancient Biblical Text That Humans Fear to Open
From ACM TechNews

Scanning an Ancient Biblical Text That Humans Fear to Open

Researchers hope to make a fragile ancient Coptic codex readable by scanning it with computerized tomography and then using software to extract legible text.
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