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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Could a Computer Tell You When Your Time Is p?
A team from the University of East Anglia will use big data to predict how long people will live.
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This w Program Encourages Women, Minorities Into Computer Science Field
The University of Wisconsin uses its Wisconsin Emerging Scholars in Computer Sciences program to draw women and minorities to the computer science field.
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Soldier Shoots Down Drone with Cyber Rifle at Defense Secretary's Feet
A coding (but not smoking) gun.
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ACM and Infosys Foundation Honor Innovator in Network Security Research
Stefan Savage of the University of California, San Diego has been selected to receive the 2015 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.
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How Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping By Letting Robots Learn For Themselves
Google Research is letting robots them learn for themselves how to grasp objects.
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New Study Finds We Still Perceive Women to Be Incompatible With STEM
A new study shows despite progress, women are still thought to lack the qualities needed to be successful scientists.
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Survey Finds Most Coders Are Self-Taught
Most programmers are self-educated and have received little formal training, according to a new survey of 50,000 coders.
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A Computer With a Great Eye Is About to Transform Botany
Pennsylvania State University paleobotanist Peter Wilf and colleagues have developed new software for identifying families of leaves.
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Computational Thinking, 10 Years Later
"Not in my lifetime." That's what I said when I was asked whether we would ever see computer science taught in K-12.
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Existing Technologies Can Assist the Disabled
Researchers consider how to adapt broadly available technology products for those battling physical impairments.
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Marvin Minsky: 1927-2016
Marvin Minsky, an American scientist who co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI laboratory and was honored with the ACM A.M. Turing Award, passed...
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A Decade of ACM Efforts Contribute to Computer Science For All
President Obama has asked Congress to approve $4.1 billion in spending to support the Computer Science for All initiative, aimed at providing computer science education...
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Human Eyes Assist Drones, Teach Machines to See
Researchers have developed a new strategy combining crowdsourcing and machine learning for rapidly interpreting aerial images captured by camera drones.
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Why Students Are Throwing Tons of Money at a Program That Won't Give Them a College Degree
Computer-coding "boot camps" are surging in popularity, but these non-accredited programs do not offer a college degree, so graduates who invest a lot of money...
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Robot Learning Companion Offers Custom-Tailored Tutoring
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and MIT have developed a socially assistive robot that can serve as a one-to-one peer for learning in the classroom or for...
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Computer Science Education in the Age of CS For All
Momentum for bringing computer science to all primary and secondary U.S. schools is building, even though many issues remain unresolved.
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Pentagon Paying Techies to Think Like Terrorists
To stop a terrorist, it helps to think like one.
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With Book on New Computer Language, Kernighan Guides Students at Princeton and Beyond
Princeton University professor Brian Kernighan has co-authored a book on the computer language Go with Alan Donovan, a member of the Go design team.
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