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
U.K. Researchers Building 'Fat-Free' Cloud Programming Framework
Researchers at Citrix and the universities of Cambridge and Nottingham have developed Mirage, a programming framework aimed at supporting applications that run...
From ACM TechNews
How a Computer Program Became Classical Music's Hot, New Composer
University of California, Santa Cruz professor David Cope has developed Emily Howell, a music-composing program that generates its own compositions by following...
From ACM TechNews
'augmented Reality' on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth
University of Wisconsin at Madison researchers are developing an open source tool that lets designers link text, images, video, and audio into a physical location...
From ACM TechNews
Toward the Semantic Web
The World Wide Web Consortium recently published the Rule Interchange Format, a new standard that should help bring the idea of the Semantic Web closer to reality...
From ACM TechNews
How Html5 Will Change the Web
The implementation of HTML5 will remake the Internet and enable basic Web sites to do much more, from tracking a user's location to storing more data in the cloud...
From ACM TechNews
sing Science Against Suicide Bombs
Software that models the effects of suicide bombings has been developed by computer scientist Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani, whose expertise could help inform the construction...
From ACM TechNews
Blogs and Tweets Could Predict the Future
Forecasts about social and economic trends could be generated through the analysis of blogs and tweets, building on earlier research by Google and others to mine...
From ACM TechNews
Trumping the Trumpets: How Audio Engineering Helps Tone Down Vuvuzela Disruption
A new filter will enable soccer fans watching the 2010 World Cup online to remove the sounds of vuvuzelas playing in South Africa's stadiums.
From Communications of the ACM
Mainstreaming Augmented Reality
Advancements in computer vision, object recognition, and related technologies are leading to new levels of sophistication in augmented-reality applications and...
From Communications of the ACM
Sharing Computational Perspectives
Computer scientists are now making intellectual contributions to a wide range of other disciplines, including evolutionary theory, physics, and economics.
From ACM News
Microsoft's Kinect Isn't Just For Games
Microsoft's long-awaited body-sensing technology, Project Natal, got a new name last week at the E3 expo in Los Angeles. Kinect, as it is now called, is a set-top...
From ACM TechNews
The A-Z of Programming Languages: Objective-C
Brad Cox, creator of the Objective-C programming language, says he co-developed the language with partner Tom Love as a reaction to the C language and its limitations...
From ACM TechNews
Why Can't Johnny Develop Secure Software?
Despite a wealth of security knowledge and developers' access to advanced tools, many software security risks remain. Analysts say that many software developers...
From ACM TechNews
18th-Century Painters Give Photography New Perspective
Software engineer Thomas Sharpless and colleagues have developed Panini, software that can make wide-angled digital photos with perfect perspective using a technique...
From ACM News
Kaminsky Issues Developer Tool To Kill Injection Bugs
Renowned security researcher Dan Kaminsky today went public with the launch of a new venture as well as its first deliverable--a tool for application developers...
From ACM News
Oil Spill on Track to Reach Atlantic No Later Than October
Oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of Mexico will reach the Atlantic Ocean within six months, says oceanographer Synte Peacock. Exactly when...
From ICT Results
Tasty New Standards For Systems-on-Chips
European researchers have developed breakthrough standards that will let microchip designers integrate more complex circuits more easily. It will mean a faster...
From ACM News
Algorithm Ranks World's Top Soccer Talent
These days, in pretty much every sport, there is no hiding from statistics. Coaches, team owners, fantasy leaguers, and fans are tracking and analyzing a player's...
From ACM News
Computer Intelligence Assists Study of Human Visual Attention
A computer-based model has advanced the study of change blindness, the failure of humans to detect seemingly obvious changes to scenes around them.
From ACM News