Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM Opinion
Obama's Top Scientist Talks Shrinking Budgets, Donald Trump, and His Biggest Regret
John Holdren is no stranger to the spotlight. Over his long career in science, Holdren—a physicist by training—has worked on controversial issues such as climate...
From ACM TechNews
Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program Reaches Record Numbers
Girls Who Code has launched its 2016 Summer Immersion Program with a record number of programs reaching 1,560 11th- and 12th-grade girls in cities across the U.S...
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College Students Demonstrate Integrity in Learning and Ignore Cheating Opportunities
A University of California, Riverside study found most college students make a legitimate attempt to answer questions in homework assignments.
From ACM TechNews
Grade-School Students Teach a Robot to Help Themselves Learn Geometry
Researchers say they have developed educational technology, incorporating teachable agent framing coupled with a physical robotic agent, that could better engage...
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Researchers Sue the Government Over Computer Hacking Law
In the age of big data analytics, the proprietary algorithms web sites use to determine what data to display to visitors have the potential to illegally discriminate...
From ACM TechNews
Obama Administration Releases $150m in Grants For Techhire
The Obama administration has issued $150 million in grants for 39 technology-related partnerships in 25 states and Washington, D.C. Awardees will use this money...
From ACM Careers
Trump's Secret Data Reversal
Donald Trump has dismissed political data operations as "overrated," but his campaign is now bolstering its online fundraising and digital outreach by turning to...
From ACM TechNews
No Place For the Old? Is Software Development a Young Person's Game?
Statistics and anecdotal evidence suggest software developers tend to be under 30.
From Communications of the ACM
Booming Enrollments
The Computing Research Association works to quantify the extent, and causes, of a jump in undergraduate computer science enrollments.
From Communications of the ACM
Legal Advice on the Smartphone
New apps help individuals contest traffic, parking tickets.
From ACM TechNews
Professor's Work Focuses on Revving p Our Highest-Speed Networks
The research of University of Virginia professor Malathi Veeraraghavan could help the latest supercomputers and large-scale observatories each their full potential...
From ACM TechNews
Report: California Colleges Produce Low Number of STEM Graduates
California has far fewer students graduating with science, technology, engineering, and math degrees from public colleges and universities than the state's businesses...
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Ethnic, Gender Imbalances Plague Computer Science Education
The U.S. Education Department's Melissa Moritz suggests conscious or unconscious bias discourages female and minority students from pursuing computer science careers...
From ACM Careers
Keyboard Warriors: South Korea Trains New Frontline in Decades-Old War with North
In one college major at Seoul's elite Korea University, the courses are known only by number, and students keep their identities a secret from outsiders.
From ACM TechNews
Black Churches Put Faith in Coding Classes
Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition is working with African-American churches and the FAITHTECH Labs initiative to provide coding classes for children.
From ACM News
Kanade Wins 2016 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology
Major award cites scientific contributions that better humankind.
From ACM News
Barbara Liskov, Weizmann Women and Science Award
"I didn’t even know computers existed."
From ACM TechNews
Bringing Programming--and Social Change--to Girls
A group of eighth-grade girls participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Co-Robots for CompuGirls event programmed a pair of humanoid robots.
From ACM Careers
Why the World Hates Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is the new Rome. As in the time of Caesar, the world is grappling with an advanced city-state dominating much of the planet, injecting its technology...
From ACM TechNews