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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Revamping Python for an AI World
Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.
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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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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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Your Wish Is My CMD
Artificial intelligence could automate software coding.
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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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Weaving the Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a paradigm shift that changed the world with his invention of the World Wide Web, Hypertext Transport Protocol, and Hypertext Markup...
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Graph Matching in Theory and Practice
A theoretical breakthrough in graph isomorphism excites complexity experts, but will it lead to any practical improvements?
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When Computers Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Classification algorithms can lead to biased decisions, so researchers are trying to identify such biases and root them out.
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Split Second
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
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Forging Relationships
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.
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Plenty of Proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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Gradual Evolution
Dynamically typed languages adopt features of static typing to cope with growth.
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General Agreement
Leslie Lamport contributed to the theory and practice of building distributed computing systems that work as intended.
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Backing Creativity
Hacker spaces are spreading around the world, though some government funding is raising questions.
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Proofs Probable
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
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Social Network Data Reveals Non-Members' Secrets
People who avoid social networking sites to maintain their privacy may not be as secure as they think, German computer scientists say.
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Game Changer
Judea Pearl's passionate advocacy of the importance of probability and causality helped revolutionize artificial intelligence.12