Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Let the Algorithm Decide?
Algorithms fail their first test to replace student exams.
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Portable Device Fears Show Power of Social Development
How do small screens impact young minds?
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Software Synthesis Learns By Example
Neural networks will assist, rather than replace, human programmers.
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Secure-System Designers Strive to STEM Data Leaks
Attackers using side-channel analysis require little knowledge of how an implementation operates.
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Shellshock Awakens Bourne-Again Zombies
A bug appears in places people didn’t think to look, or patch.
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Researchers Probe Security Through Obscurity
Obfuscation protects code by making it so impenetrable that access to it won't help a hacker understand how it works.
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