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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Viewing the Web Through Colorblind Eyes
How Web designers develop sites to ensure the colorblind can perceive them.
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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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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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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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The State of Fakery
How digital media could be authenticated, from computational, legal, and ethical points of view.
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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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Your Virtual Robot Assistant
With its "unique capabilities," virtual "James" is designed to interact with people regarding the delivery of a service.
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Hacker-Proof Coding
Software verification helps find the faults, preventing hacks.
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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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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
An out-of-the-box solution to infrastructure is drawing increasing attention.
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The 'smart City' Is Increasingly Global
Municipalities all over the world are building greater intelligence into their infrastructures.
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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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Beer Taps the Internet of Things
Industry-specific technology tracks how quickly kegs are drained and help purveyors charge for every last drop.
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Should Everybody Learn to Code?
Not everyone needs coding skills, but learning how to think like a programmer can be useful in many disciplines.
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Keeping Computers Cool From the Inside
New techniques could cut the power required to avoid overheating.12