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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Locking Down Secure Open Source Software
Can even secure open source software ever be considered truly safe?
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Virtual Duplicates
Digital twins aim to model reality so we can see how it changes.
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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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Going Serverless
Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the...
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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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Visualizing Sound
New techniques capture speech by looking for the vibrations it causes.
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Time For a Change
4D printing combines the dimension of time with the hope of building objects with new capabilities.
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Playing at Health
Developers try to tap the beneficial effects of video games.
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More Than a Mouse
Gesture and gaze are among the newest additions to a growing family of computer interfaces.
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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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Digging For Drug Facts
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.
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Automating Scientific Discovery
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.
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Gaining Wisdom from Crowds
Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.
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Remaking American Medicine
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Sorting Through Photos
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.12