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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Legal Advice on the Smartphone
New apps help individuals contest traffic, parking tickets.
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Coding as Sport
Programming competitions help identify and reward those who excel in coding.
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Existing Technologies Can Assist the Disabled
Researchers consider how to adapt broadly available technology products for those battling physical impairments.
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Technology Brings Online Education in Line with Campus Programs
Whether sitting in front of a screen or in a classroom, online and campus-based institutions want to verify students actually attend classes, take exams.
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Court Reaffirms Ftc Authority to Prosecute Cybersecurity Breaches
The ruling underscores corporate responsibility to protect consumer data.
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Cyber Policies on the Rise
A growing number of companies are taking out cybersecurity insurance policies to protect themselves from the costs of data breaches.
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AI Researchers Call For Ban on Autonomous Weapons
Technologists ask the UN to outlaw weapons that operate outside of human control.
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The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
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Putting the Data Science Into Journalism
News organizations increasingly use techniques like data mining, Web scraping, and data visualization to uncover information that would be impossible to identify...
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Using Technology to Help People
Companies are creating technological solutions for individuals, then generalizing them to broader populations that need similar assistance.
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Technology Confounds the Courts
Despite the need to make decisions relevant to technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court is not the most techno-savvy group.
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Weaponizing Robots
Should we expect to see autonomous killing machines on future battlefields?
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Legal Issues with Robots
Who is responsible when property is damaged or someone is injured by an automated system? Existing product liability laws have not yet been tested in the context...12