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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Shining a Light on the Dark Web
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
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A Nested Inventory for Software Security, Supply Chain Risk Management
The growing importance of the Software Bill of Materials
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Capturing What is Said
Artificial intelligence is boosting the capabilities of automatic speech recognition.
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First, There Were Bug Bounties. Now, Here Come the Bias Bounties
Offering rewards for the identification of bias in algorithms.
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Converting Laws to Programs
In highly regulated industries, it is critical that laws are translated precisely into code that reflects their intent.
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Filtering for Beauty
Social media "influencers" use augmented reality filtering apps to appear more beautiful, together, and cool. Results may vary.
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The Next Best Thing to Being There
Encouraged by the pandemic, augmented and mixed realities bring new views to end-users in medicine, industry, and the military.
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How Universities Deploy Student Data
Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.
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Open Source Professionals in Demand
An "increasingly open source world" needs specialists in Linux and other open source technologies.
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Software Without Coding
"Citizen Developers" can create new applications via low-code development.
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DevOps Momentum in the Enterprise
The notion of unifying software development and software operation is catching on.
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Hacker-Proof Coding
Software verification helps find the faults, preventing hacks.
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How AI Is Changing Software Development
Artificial intelligence technologies like advanced machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing will help build better software faster.
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Chatbots Take Off
Companies are exploring the use of a "human dialogue interface" to interact with customers and employees more effectively.
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Preserving the Internet
Is the Internet ephemeral by its nature, or can it be archived?
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Companies Proactively Seek Out Internal Threats
Organizations must balance their concerns with the protection of employee privacy.
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Python For Beginners
A survey found the language in use in introductory programming classes in the top U.S. computer science schools.
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Ephemeral Data
Privacy issues can evaporate when embarrassing content does likewise.12