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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Distilling What We Know
Researchers look to cut large GPT models down to size.
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Can Digital Wallets Save Cryptocurrency?
Seeking a better deal for bitcoin and its ilk in Web3 and the Metaverse.
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Ambient IoT Gets Down to Business
Highly flexible, inexpensive low-energy sensors combined with pervasive connectivity and artificial intelligence deliver real-time triggers without human intervention...
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Computational Linguistics Finds Its Voice
Advances in artificial intelligence permit computers to converse with humans in seemingly realistic ways.
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Hidden Malware Ratchets Up Cybersecurity Risks
Cybercriminals could be hiding malware payloads in places where commercial cybersecurity software is unable to detect it.
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Brain Implants Get Real
Universities, and a growing number of companies, are producing brain-computer interfaces.
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Immersion Cooling Heats Up
Depending on climate conditions, the availability of renewables and other factors, immersion cooling can make a profound difference in both energy consumption and...
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Can AI Learn to Forget?
Specialized techniques may make it possible to induce selective 'amnesia' in machine learning models.
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Can a Free Internet Survive?
Internet freedom is eroding on two fronts: the sheer number of efforts to block access to legitimate information, and the level of sophistication used.
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What Is the Cost of Living Online?
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."
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Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality
Key questions and challenges remain, including how to scale qubit devices while reducing noise and errors to the point where the devices become useful.
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Photonic Processors Light the Way
Highly efficient light-based processors can overcome the bottlenecks of today's electronics.
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Changing How Data is Used
Federated AI Learning promises to reshape data security, privacy.
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Quantum Sensing Takes Shape
Opening up the world around us by detecting changes in quantum states.
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The Worsening State of Ransomware
Sophisticated, dangerous ransomware is the new normal … and there is no simple fix.
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Could Mobile Voting Ring True?
Voting on smartphones could result in higher voter turnouts.
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The Scramble for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Quantum computers are expected to undermine today's computer security.
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