Communications of the ACM
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March 2016
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The Fbi Warns That Car Hacking Is a Real Risk
It's been eight months since a pair of security researchers proved beyond any doubt that car hacking is more than an action movie plot device when they remotely killed the transmission of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee as I drove it down…
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Searching for the Particle Accelerator at the Heart of the Milky Way
We're rightly proud of the Large Hadron Collider, which accelerates protons up to 7 Tera-electron Volts before smashing them together.
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Inside Apple Ceo Tim Cook's Fight With the Fbi
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Astronomers Discover Colossal 'super Spiral' Galaxies
A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness.
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Oldest Ancient-Human Dna Details Dawn of Neanderthals
Matthias Meyer has just published the results of what may be the world's most wasteful genome-sequencing project.
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In Africa, Watson's Sister Lucy Is Growing p With the Help of Ibm's Research Team
IBM Research Africa's Kenya lab is giving shape to Lucy, a technology platform aimed at finding "commercially viable solutions to the continent's grand challenges."
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Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++ 17
In an interview, C++ programming language creator Bjarne Stroustrup discusses its next planned iteration, C++ 17.
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Computer Scientists Produce Realistic Face Models From Video Recordings
Researchers say they have developed a way to quickly and easily produce very detailed face models.
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Banning Words on Instagram Doesn't Help--It Makes It Worse
A new study shows Instagram's decision to ban certain words used by pro-eating disorder communities had those communities making up new, almost identical words.
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The Need For Cognitive Computing
Companies get help digging the pearls of wisdom out of their big data.
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There Is a 'game Changer' Technology on Wall Street and People Keep Confusing It with Bitcoin
Wall Street banks are buzzing about blockchain.
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On the Hunt For a Mystery Planet
Astronomer Scott Sheppard runs through his checklist as he settles in for a long night of skygazing at the Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
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Apple Says Constitution 'forbids' What Fbi Is Asking
Apple shouldn't have to comply with a search order for an iPhone used by one the San Bernardino, California, terrorists because the Constitution forbids it, the company said Tuesday.
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DARPA Calls on Diyers For Weaponized Tech
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking ideas on how products assembled from benign technologies might be transformed into security threats.
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Forget the Robots--Here Come the Geminoids!
Last weekend's South by Southwest Interactive Festival was a showcase for many types of robots.
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What AI Can Tell S About the .s. Supreme Court
Researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Discovery Analytics Center have proposed using machine learning to model the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Computer Science Education in the Age of CS For All
Momentum for bringing computer science to all primary and secondary U.S. schools is building, even though many issues remain unresolved.
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Why the Government Can't Actually Stop Terrorists From Using Encryption
Security experts say U.S. government efforts to force technology firms to grant access to encrypted devices will do little to prevent terrorists from using the technology.
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To Get Truly Smart, AI Might Need to Play More Video Games
The latest computer games can be fantastically realistic.
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Pentagon Paying Techies to Think Like Terrorists
To stop a terrorist, it helps to think like one.
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What Google's Winning Go Algorithm Will Do Next
Following the defeat of one of its finest human players, the ancient game of Go has joined the growing list of tasks at which computers perform better than humans.
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Apple Fight Could Escalate with Demand For 'source Code'
The latest filing in the legal war between the planet’s most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high-stakes confrontation could escalate even further.
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With Book on New Computer Language, Kernighan Guides Students at Princeton and Beyond
Princeton University professor Brian Kernighan has co-authored a book on the computer language Go with Alan Donovan, a member of the Go design team.
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High Throughput Computing Helps Ligo Confirm Einstein's Last nproven Theory
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory is helping researchers detect gravitational waves caused by the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago.
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Less Than Meets the Eye
Computer-vision models designed to reproduce the capacities of the human brain may need to be adjusted.
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Fast Facial Analysis Software Set For Release
The new software could be particularly useful in fields where subjective interpretation has been the norm.
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In the Apple Case, a Debate Over Data Hits Home
Three years ago, reeling from Edward J. Snowden’s disclosure of the government’s vast surveillance programs and uncertain how to respond, President Obama said he welcomed a vigorous public debate about the wrenching trade-offs…
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How Google's AI Viewed the Move No Human Could nderstand
The move didn't make sense to the humans packed into the sixth floor of Seoul's Four Seasons hotel. But the Google machine saw it quite differently.
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Gates Thinks Quantum Computing in the Cloud May Come in a Decade
Bill Gates says it is possible that in six to 10 years "cloud computing will offer super-computation by using quantum."
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New Learning Procedure For Neural Networks
Max Planck Institute researcher Robert Gutig has used a computer model to develop a new learning procedure for neural networks.