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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Women in Computer Science Are Making Strides
Computer science is still not a level playing field for those women who majored in it and choose to pursue it as a career.
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. . . And the Computer Plays Along
Software can improvise on the spot to accompany the performance of live musicians.
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Applied AI Teaches Handwriting
In an increasingly digital world, how do you teach students cursive handwriting?
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Neurotechnology and the Law
How closely should implants be regulated?
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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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Hiring from the Autism Spectrum
Companies increasingly are looking to hire people who are on the autism spectrum to fill IT roles.
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How Universities Deploy Student Data
Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.
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The CS Teacher Shortage
How can we fill more computer science classrooms when there just aren't enough teachers to go around?
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Exoskeletons Today
Wearable mobile machines integrate people and machines to assist the movement-impaired, and amplify the capabilities of industrial and defense workers while protecting...
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The Dangers of Automating Social Programs
Is it possible to keep bias out of a social program driven by one or more algorithms?
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Broadening the Path for Women in STEM
Organizations work to address 'a notable absence of women in the field.'
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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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The State of Fakery
How digital media could be authenticated, from computational, legal, and ethical points of view.
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Are International Students Still Coming to the .s.a.?
Is the U.S. political situation, including its on-again/off-again immigration bans, scaring away foreign students?
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Overcoming Disabilities
Brain-computer interfaces hold the promise of fully featured replacements for body parts that don't work or are missing.
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Combating Cancer With Data
Supercomputers will sift massive amounts of data in search of therapies that work.
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Computing the Arts
Artists can use software to create art, and some software creates art all on its own.
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More Low-Cost Pcs Are Aimed at Students
BBC’s micro:bit is the latest low-cost computer for education.
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Games that Teach Coding
A growing number of games seek to introduce the concepts of programming to young players.12