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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Wormhole Is Best Bet For Time Machine, Astrophysicist Says
The concept of a time machine typically conjures up images of an implausible plot device used in a few too many science-fiction storylines.
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How Snowden Did It
When Edward Snowden stole the crown jewels of the National Security Agency, he didn't need to use any sophisticated devices or software or go around any computer...
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Productivity Tools For Cybercrime
Stealing 10 million dollars a few hundred dollars at a time used to be too labor-intensive to be a great business.
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As Tennis Stats Proliferate, Software Tries to Make Sense of It All
SlamTracker software sifts through 20 years of data to predict how tennis players could perform under various circumstances.
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The Walls Have Ears: Princeton Researchers Develop Walls That Can Listen, and Talk
Princeton University researchers have successfully incorporated ultrathin radios on plastic sheets, which can be applied to walls and other structures.
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Researchers Granted Patent For System That Fuses Human and Computer Intelligence
The creators of a system that integrates human and computer intelligence to support decision-making in crisis situations have been awarded a U.S. patent.
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Kean Computer Science Students in nion Travel 'beyond the Grave'
A new smartphone app provides access to information on grave markers in the First Presbyterian Church cemetery in Elizabeth, N.J.
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The Pentagon as Silicon Valley's Incubator
In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is...
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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four...
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In Markets' Tuned-p Machinery, Stubborn Ghosts Remain
A generation ago, when the stock market crashed on Oct. 19, 1987, the Nasdaq stock market appeared to have done much better than the New York Stock Exchange.
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Quadcopter Piloted By a Smartphone
Researchers have built a cost-efficient quadcopter that operates completely autonomously, using a smartphone to provide visual data and a control center.
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Nsa Gathered Thousands of Americans' Emails Before Court Ordered It to Revise its Tactics
The U.S. National Security Agency illegally collected up to 56,000 "wholly domestic" communications each year from 2008 to 2011.
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Twitter Hashtags Predict Rising Tension in Egypt
The Political Polarization Index uses Twitter to measure political tension in Egypt.
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Laser Listening: Could You Eavesdrop on the Guardian?
The U.K. government has warned the Guardian newspaper that foreign agents could use laser technology to eavesdrop on them, in the wake of recent surveillance leaks...
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Magnetic Diversion For Electronic Switches
'Chameleon processors' could function as programmable logic or nonvolatile memory.
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Software-Defined Networking
Novel architecture allows programmers to quickly reconfigure network resource usage.
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Ephemeral Data
Privacy issues can evaporate when embarrassing content does likewise.
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Remembering Douglas Engelbart
"Inspiring," "visionary," "humble," "honest," "impeccable integrity," "passionate and stubborn about his work." Tributes poured in for Douglas Engelbart, inventor...
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Seven Over 70
For over a decade, we've celebrated innovators under the age of 35. We choose to write about the young because we want to introduce you to the most promising new...
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