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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10k Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure
A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants...
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Hewlett Packard Opens Doors to Its HP Labs .K. Research Base
The year is 2015, and in a government-owned data centre somewhere in southern England thousands of servers are humming away, hard at work keeping the country running...
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Google Wants Ability to 'combine' Your ser Data
Google is planning to rewrite its privacy policy to grant it explicit rights to "combine personal information" across multiple products and services, the company...
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When Self-Driving Cars and the Real World Collide
Even as Google tests its small fleet of self-driving vehicles on California highways, legal scholars and government officials are warning that society has only...
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Nyc Opens First High School For Software Engineering
New York City will create its first public high school dedicated to training students in software development.
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Warrants Needed For Gps Monitoring, Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor...
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ACM Fellows Inducted
Forty-six men and women are recognized as 2011 ACM Fellows.
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The War Against Botnets
Increasingly sophisticated botnets have emerged during the last several years. However, security researchers, businesses, and governments are attacking botnets...
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How .s. Lost Out on Iphone Work
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
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Air Force's Top Brain Wants a 'Social Radar' to 'See Into Hearts and Minds'
Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark...
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U.s. Losing High-Tech Jobs, R&d Dominance to Asia
U.S. companies are locating more of their research and development operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science...
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Project Dreamcatcher
How cutting-edge text analytics can help the Obama campaign determine voters' hopes and fears.
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Google's Marissa Mayer Says More Women Needed in Tech
Despite recent advances by women in high-tech fields, there is still much room for growth, according to a group of female tech executives speaking at the recent...
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The Opposite of Evil: Google Named Best Place to Work in America
Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place...
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Scratching Your Head Over Sopa?
As Wikipedia and other Websites go dark Wednesday in what backers are calling the largest Internet protest ever, the epic battle between Silicon Valley and Hollywood...
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Sopa: Sites Go Dark As Part of Anti-Piracy Law Protests
Thousands of Internet sites are taking part in a "blackout" protest against anti-piracy laws being discussed by U.S. lawmakers.
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Will Tablets Replace Laptops?
Tablets like the iPad 2 are hot … and apparently so hot that 46% of respondents believe they will eventually eliminate the need for laptop computers, according...
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Ethical Supercomputing
Socially conscious organizations can turn to a non-profit supercomputing grid service, Charity Engine, for extra compute cycles.
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Nyc to Open Its First Software Engineering High School
New York City is taking another step toward becoming Silicon Alley—the East Coast’s own tech hub—with the grand opening of the city's first software engineering...
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