Communications of the ACM
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February 2017
From ACM TechNews
Intelligence Agency Opens $325,000 Advanced, Automated Fingerprint Gathering Competition
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's newest contest challenges participants to build an automated fingerprint collection system that matches the performance of human operators.
From ACM News
Inside the 20-Year Quest to Build Computers That Play Poker
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research raise questions about the threat that bots pose to the online gambling industry.
From Communications of the ACM
It's Not the Algorithm, It's the Data
In risk assessment and predictive policing, biased data can yield biased results.
From Communications of the ACM
Are Computer Chips the New Security Threat?
Security researchers have identified a technique for installing a backdoor on computer chips, a security flaw that could profoundly change the computing industry.
From Communications of the ACM
Secure Quantum Communications
Data locking experiments provide stepping stones to a possible future in quantum cryptography.