Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM TechNews
Microsoft's Quantum-Computing Services Attract New Customers
Microsoft's Azure cloud-hosted quantum-computing services are drawing new customers.
From ACM TechNews
Miss Your Office? Some Companies Are Building Virtual Replicas
Some employers are building virtual reproductions of their offices as online simulations for workers in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.
From ACM TechNews
Supercomputer Model Simulations Reveal Cause of Neanderthal Extinction
Supercomputer models determined that competition between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens was likely responsible for the former's extinction in Eurasia.
From ACM TechNews
Microsoft to Adapt Its Cloud Software for Healthcare Industry
Microsoft plans to launch a version of its cloud-based software to meet the needs of healthcare organizations.
From ACM TechNews
Verifying, Validating the Clinical Usefulness of Wearable Technology
An international team of engineers and researchers created a framework to assess and document the clinical usefulness of wearable computing devices.
From ACM News
Scanning the Skies for Danger
Finding dangerous asteroids by reverse-engineering their orbits.
From ACM TechNews
Wearable Sensor Tracks Vitamin C Levels in Sweat
Researchers developed a new wearable sensor that monitors vitamin C levels in perspiration.
From ACM TechNews
Israeli Researchers Stop Cyberattacks with Discovery of Major DDoS Exploit
Researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya discovered a previously unknown Distributed Denial of Service exploit.
From ACM TechNews
Smartphone App to Help Assess Anemia by Taking Picture of a Person's Eyelid
New software allows medical staff to obtain a patient’s hemoglobin count in real time by capturing an image of the patient's inner eyelid with a smartphone.
From Communications of the ACM
Seeing Through Walls
Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.
From ACM TechNews
Engineers Develop Low-Cost, High-Accuracy System for Flexible Medical Robots
Roboticists developed a low-cost system to track the location of flexible surgical robots operating inside the human body.
From ACM TechNews
Comedy Club Performances Provide Insights on How Robots, Humans Connect via Humor
Two studies evaluated a robot comedian's performance at comedy clubs to gather data to enable more effective robot-human interplay through humor.
From ACM TechNews
Coding for Covid-19: Contest Calls on Developers to Help Fight the Pandemic
One track in this year's IBM Call for Code challenge focused on the Covid-19 pandemic.
From ACM TechNews
Algorithm Helps Analyze Images to Improve Health Care, Manufacturing
A new algorithm makes it easier for humans to recognize and analyze patterns that appear in both natural and manufactured systems.
From ACM News
Using Crowdsourced Computing to Fight the Coronavirus
Folding@Home is more powerful than the world’s top seven supercomputers combined.
From ACM TechNews
Elderly Home Turns to Wearables for Contact Tracing, Sidestepping Apple-Google Limits
The Legacy at Town Square senior living facility in Amarillo, TX, recently accelerated contact tracing by having staffers and residents wear high-tech wristbands...
From ACM TechNews
This Robot Can Guess How You're Feeling by the Way You Walk
A new algorithm enables a small four-wheeled robot to perform real-time gait analysis in order to determine a walker's emotional state.
From ACM TechNews
Scientists Develop Tool to Improve Disease Model Accuracy
A new embedded discrepancy operator could help scientists deliver more accurate predictions of how diseases such as COVID-19 spread through populations around the...
From ACM TechNews