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
Virtual Reality Can Significantly Reduce Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in Just a Month By Turning Sufferers Into Avatars
University College London researchers have developed a virtual-reality system they say could help reduce the symptoms of depression.
From ACM TechNews
Crowdsourcing Software Could Help US Move House and Stay Where We Are
Holger Schnadelbach has developed a crowdsourcing website to provide a categorized overview of building adaptations and their causes.
From ACM TechNews
New Algorithm Improves Speed and Accuracy of Pedestrian Detection
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers say they have developed a pedestrian-detection system more accurate than conventional systems.
From ACM News
The Chips Are Down For Moore’s Law
The semiconductor industry will soon abandon its pursuit of Moore's law. Now things could get a lot more interesting.
From ACM News
Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World nemployed'
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...
From ACM News
Particles in Love: Quantum Mechanics Explored in New Study
Here's a love story at the smallest scales imaginable: particles of light.
From ACM News
How Google Searches Pretty Much Nailed the New Hampshire Primary
Google's ability to look into the future of political contests just notched another win: New Hampshire.
From ACM TechNews
12 Questions For Vint Cerf
In an interview, Google vice president and past ACM president Vint Cerf discusses the Internet's transformation over the years.
From ACM TechNews
Study Finds That Anti-Crypto Laws Won't Work on an International Stage
A recent study concluded local regulations to restrict encryption technology would have no effect, considering the technology's international nature.
From ACM TechNews
Stanford Engineers' 'law, Order & Algorithms' Data Project Aims to Identify Bias in the Criminal Justice System
Stanford University researchers have launched the Project on Law, Order, & Algorithms, a database of 100 million traffic stops from across the U.S.
From ACM TechNews
Gps Tracking Down to the Centimeter
University of California, Riverside researchers say they have developed a more computationally efficient way to process data from global positioning systems.
From ACM News
Our Hidden Neandertal Dna May Increase Risk of Allergies, Depression
Depressed? Your inner Neandertal may be to blame.
From ACM News
Knowledge Graphs Pick Needles from the Haystack
Using machine learning to wade through massive amounts of data.
From ACM News
New Report Contends Mandatory Crypto Backdoors Would Be Futile
An estimated 63 percent of the encryption products available today are developed outside US borders, according to a new report that takes a firm stance against...
From ACM TechNews
Scientists' Robotically Driven System Could Reduce Cost of Discovering Drug and Target Interactions
Carnegie Mellon University researchers say they have created the first robotically-driven experimentation system to determine the effects of drugs on many proteins...
From ACM TechNews
Australia's Plan to Make a Digital Representation of Everything
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization will build a "historical, current, and future digital representation of everything" in...
From ACM TechNews
How Microsoft's Video Game Tech Could Help Ms Patients
Microsoft, working with Novartis and three multiple sclerosis clinics in Europe, has created a prototype intelligent-camera system to track the disease's progress...
From ACM News
Scientists Debate Signatures of Alien Life
Huddled in a coffee shop one drizzly Seattle morning six years ago, the astrobiologist Shawn Domagal-Goldman stared blankly at his laptop screen, paralyzed.
From ACM News
S Military: Robot Wars
When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...
From ACM TechNews