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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


Remembering Valérie Issarny
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Remembering Valérie Issarny

Computer scientist Valérie Issarny, a director of research at France's National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology and chair of the ACM Europe...

The Economic Payoff of Federally Funded IT Research
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The Economic Payoff of Federally Funded IT Research

How basic IT research has yielded huge commercial benefits.

COBOL Programmers are Back In Demand. Seriously.
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COBOL Programmers are Back In Demand. Seriously.

States race to upgrade their legacy mainframe systems to meet the cascade of unemployment claims caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Holding Algorithms Accountable
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Holding Algorithms Accountable

How can we battle algorithmic bias?

Hacking the Body Electric
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Hacking the Body Electric

Electroceuticals use electricity, rather than chemicals, to treat the body's ills.

Crawling Inside Hard Drives
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Crawling Inside Hard Drives

Digital forensics seeks evidence in stored digital information; it's not as easy as it sounds.

Pressure Building for Rules of Engagement for Cyberwarfare
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Pressure Building for Rules of Engagement for Cyberwarfare

The call for an international legal framework governing cyberwarfare is gaining momentum.

Into the Breach
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Into the Breach

Cyber ratings firms help companies evaluate the risks of doing business.

Getting Past The Ad Blockers
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Getting Past The Ad Blockers

Online consumers use software to block ads; online advertisers can pay to be whitelisted by some ad-blocking software.

Google’s Project Zero Aims to 'improve Security Across the Internet'
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Google’s Project Zero Aims to 'improve Security Across the Internet'

Google has assembled 'the best practically-minded security researchers' to 'significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks.'
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