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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The Secret Alliance That Could Give the Web a Massive Speed Boost
WebAssembly is a joint project among Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple to create a new Internet platform.
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Ancient American Genome Rekindles Legal Row
The genome of a famous 8,500-year-old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely related to Native American tribes that have for...
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Beware the Listening Machines
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.
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Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire
Three-and-a-half years ago, a strange computing device appeared at an office building in the tiny farmland town of Shelby, Iowa.
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ACM Appoints New Ceo
Indiana University’s Robert Schnabel will take the top staff position at the world’s largest computing society.
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Shock European Court Decision: Websites Are Liable For sers' Comments
In a surprise decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has ruled that the Estonian news site Delfi may be held responsible for anonymous...
From ACM TechNews
President Obama: The Fast Company Interview
In an interview, U.S. President Barack Obama discusses "digital teams" of technologists he brought in to improve technology across the executive branch of government...
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sing Virtual Reality to Overcome Fear, Reduce Prejudice
Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab is exploring how to overcome phobias, confront prejudices, and better tolerate pain with virtual reality.
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Alabama Researcher Devises a Way to Harness nused Iot Power
Researchers have developed a computer architecture that can harness the unused computer cycles generated by smart home devices.
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Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?
A multi-university team of researchers has demonstrated that mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into changing employment levels.
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U.s. 'export Rules' Threaten Research
The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...
From ACM News
Who Will Own the Robots?
The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative."
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Consumer Groups Back Out of Federal Talks on Face Recognition
A central component of President Obama's effort to give consumers more control over how companies collect and share their most sensitive personal details has run...
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Spanish Software Tracks the Source of Fecally Polluted Water
A Spanish research team has developed software that can predict the source of fecal pollution in seas, reservoirs, and rivers.
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Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing
London artist James Bridle has created a tool that can determine how much time users spend on different countries' websites and then compute their algorithmic citizenship...
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How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market
It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, it has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head.
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When Does a Hack Become an Act of War?
A tremendous number of personnel records—including some quite personal records—have likely been stolen by computer hackers.
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Robotic Harvesting of Broccoli Could Be Coming to a Field Near You
A project involving three-dimensional camera technology at the University of Lincoln could result in a fully automatic robotic harvesting system for broccoli.
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Facial Recognition Technology Is Everywhere. It May Not Be Legal.
Being anonymous in public might be a thing of the past.
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