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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Teaching Transformed
The apparent ability of LLMs to write functioning source code has caused celebration over the potential for massive increases in programmer productivity and consternation...
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Historic Algorithms Help Unlock Shortest-Path Problem Breakthrough
By revisiting key algorithms from computing, a team unlocked hidden efficiency in a long-standing computer science problem.
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Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners
Measurement has driven research groups to home in on the most popular datasets, but that may change as metrics shift to real-world quality.
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Better Security Through Obfuscation
The quest to find greater security through obscurity.
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The Best of NLP
Natural language processing delves more deeply into its knowledge gap.
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Coalition of the Willing Takes Aim at COVID-19
Data science can only do so much in the face of a pandemic.
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Animals Teach Robots to Find Their Way
Navigation research demonstrates bio-machine symbiosis.
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Software Synthesis Learns By Example
Neural networks will assist, rather than replace, human programmers.
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Containers Push Toward the Mayfly Server
The container revolution represents a large-scale shift in thinking about multitasking systems.
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Automating Proofs
Math struggles with the usability of formal proofs.
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Brain Science Helps Computers Separate Speakers in a Crowded Room
People can listen to a single voice amid the hubbub of a cocktail party; algorithms can help computers do it, too.
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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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Using Patient Data For Personalized Cancer Treatments
Patient information databases eventually will help improve health outcomes and support development of new therapies.
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