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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The Rise of the Chatbots
How do we keep track of the truth when bots are becoming increasingly skilled liars?
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Making Connections
Bob Metcalfe, recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his role in the development of Ethernet, briefly considered a career in tennis.
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Locking Down Secure Open Source Software
Can even secure open source software ever be considered truly safe?
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The Outlook for Crypto
Can cryptocurrencies cut their environmental impact?
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Always Improving Performance
Jack J. Dongarra is the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high-performance...
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Virtual Duplicates
Digital twins aim to model reality so we can see how it changes.
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Getting Down to Basics
2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman helped develop formal language theory, invented efficient algorithms to drive the tasks of a...
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Catching the Fakes
Applying neural networks to images helps identify counterfeit goods.
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Fact-Finding Mission
Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
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Tracking COVID, Discreetly
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
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Your Wish Is My CMD
Artificial intelligence could automate software coding.
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Seeing Through Walls
Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.
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Neural Net Worth
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun this month will receive the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made...
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A New Movement in Seismology
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.
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Rewarded for RISC
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients David Patterson and John Hennessy developed the "dangerous" idea that software should be simpler so it can be executed more quickly...
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Using Functions for Easier Programming
Functional programming languages automate many of the details underlying specific operations.
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Always Out of Balance
Computational theorists prove there is no easy algorithm to find Nash equilibria, so game theory will have to look in new directions.
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