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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Tech’s Gender Gap Wasn’t Always So Bad. Here’s How It Got Worse
A new documentary film called CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap explores the glaring lack of American female and minority computer science engineers.
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Hacker Mitnick Has a Plan to Help You Stay Safe Online
Even famed hacker Kevin Mitnick—labeled a "computer terrorist" by the FBI in the '90s—worries about getting hacked.
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Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages
From D to R, these lesser-known languages tackle specific problems in ways worthy of a cult following.
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Sensors For Seniors
In-home technologies are helping seniors stay aware, healthy, and in touch.
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Intelligent Living
After years of false starts, the smart home is gaining momentum.
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Decoding the Language of Human Movement
Computers that recognize what is happening in moving images can help defend against crime, and revolutionize rehabilitation.
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What's Next For the Rosetta Mission and Comet Exploration
Somewhere dark and icy on a comet 320 million miles away, the history-making, comet-bouncing Philae spacecraft is sleeping.
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:-O: The Surprising Power of Emoticons
It all started with an awkward moment online. In the early 1980s, computer scientist Scott Fahlman realised his words were failing him.
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Note to Future Self
Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is working to develop a sort of cryptographic time capsule.
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New Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical
Researchers have developed a new kind of load driver that could enable biological circuits to behave almost as predictably as electronic circuits.
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Linguistic Mapping Reveals How Word Meanings Sometimes Change Overnight
To track how language evolves, Stony Brook University researcher Vivek Kulkarni and colleagues map the linguistic vector space of words.
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Tomorrow's Degradable Electronics
SINTEF researchers in Norway say they have made electronic components that are soluble in water and disappear after a few hours.
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Facebook's Flow Could Help Javascript Programmers Spot Elusive Bugs
Facebook researchers have developed Flow, an open source debugging tool for JavaScript designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse of data types.
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S Regulators Move on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics
For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world...
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How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap
Staffers of Ross Perot have unearthed and restored a big chunk of ENIAC, the "Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer."
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Seven Steps to Creating a Brain Implant
The brain is one of the most delicate and complex objects in the universe, so tinkering with its activity may seem like a fool's errand.
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Structural Electronics Come Online
Multifunction components are becoming more common as the world gets "smarter."
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