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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Machine Learning Saves Babies!
Hospitals collect an enormous amount of data on premature babies. Computer scientists are using machine learning to find common patterns in the data, create new...
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Self-Driving Cars a Reality For 'ordinary People' Within 5 Years, Says Google's Sergey Brin
Self-driving, autonomous vehicles will be available for "ordinary people" in less than five years and they will be much safer than those driven by humans, says...
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10 Hot It Skills For 2013
The demand for high-tech professionals continues to rise, as 33 percent of IT professionals in Computerworld's 2013 Forecast survey say they plan to hire more workers...
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Who's Behind the Wheel? Nobody.
The Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca is a 2.2-mile asphalt roller coaster plunging and soaring across California's tawny Monterey highlands.
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New Server Cooling Technology Deployed in Pilot Program at Calit2
Calit2 recently developed Cool-Flo, cooling technology that could improve energy efficiency and enable higher-performance computing.
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Stuxnet Tricks Copied By Computer Criminals
Security researchers warn that the techniques used in sophisticated, state-supported malware are being used by less-skilled programmers to target Web users.
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Facebook Raises Fears with Ad Tracking
Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those...
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Facebook Can Id Faces, but Using Them Grows Tricky
Facebook on Friday confronted a new obstacle over what to do with one of its most vital assets—pictures.
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New Pcs That Ship With Preloaded Malware
Open the bubble wrap on a new PC and the one thing you don't expect to find is preloaded malware.
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Official: Iran's N. Facilities Vaccinated Against Malwares
Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali stressed that Iranian experts and engineers are fully capable of detecting and repelling...
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Iran Readies Domestic Internet System, Blocks Google
Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the...
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Reality Checker: How to Cut Nonsense From the Net
Several organizations are developing technologies that can prevent falsehoods from spreading on the Internet.
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Redesigning the Data Center
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
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Computer Science and the Three Rs
A growing sense of crisis prevails as computer science searches for its place in the K--12 curriculum.
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Big Data and Its Big Problems
Imagine every thousandth blood cell in your body has a tiny radio transmitter in it.
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Iran Preparing Internal Version of Internet
The Iranian government reportedly has established a technical platform for a national online network that would exist independent of the Internet and allow for...
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Watch Your Tongue: Law Enforcement Speech Recognition System Stores Millions of Voices
Intercepting thousands of phone calls is easy for government agencies. But quickly analyzing the calls and identifying the callers can prove a difficult task.
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Cameras Know You By Your Walk
Everyone knows how easy it is to recognize a friend or family member from their walk—even from a distance.
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Bionic Eyes: Sensors That se Lookout's Brainwaves to Spot Trouble
As good as surveillance technology has gotten at some tasks, computers still frequently fail when it comes to figuring out the difference between a threat and a...
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