Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM TechNews
Dear Everyone Teaching Programming: You're Doing It Wrong
Do-it-yourself programming sites are mostly useless because of their opaque interfaces and because programming itself is broken, according to Bret Victor, a former...
From ACM TechNews
Stuxnet Tricks Copied By Computer Criminals
Security researchers warn that the techniques used in sophisticated, state-supported malware are being used by less-skilled programmers to target Web users.
From ACM News
Intel's Tiny Wi-Fi Chip Could Have a Big Impact
This month, Intel unveiled a Wi-Fi radio almost completely made of the same sort of transistors that go into one of its microprocessors.
From ACM News
Stuxnet Tricks Copied By Computer Criminals
Malicious code apparently used by governments to spy on, harass, and sabotage one another has grabbed headlines in recent years, yet the highly targeted nature...
From ACM TechNews
A Computational Model of an Anticancer Nanoparticle
Researchers have used IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer to build a model of how a drug inhibits a target enzyme known to spur the spread of cancer.
From ACM TechNews
Artificial Intelligence, Powered by Many Humans
University of Rochester researchers have developed Chorus, an approach to virtual personal assistants that creates a smart artificial chat partner from small contributions...
From ACM Opinion
Review: Raspberry Pi
You can get a lot for $35 these days. It bought me what looks like a credit card-size James Bond gadget prototype but is actually a fully functional computer.
From ACM TechNews
Statisticians Calculate Probability of Another 9/11 Attack
There is a 50 percent chance of another devastating terrorist attack within the next decade, according to statistics compiled by the Santa Fe Institute's Aaron...
From ACM TechNews
This Touch Screen Knows Your Touch
Rutgers University researchers have developed a device that could identify an individual user and rapidly switch a system's settings to adjust to the user, providing...
From ACM TechNews
How to Share Personal Data While Keeping Secrets Safe
Cornell University researchers have developed a new mathematical technique that allows for the sharing of large data sets of personal data without compromising...
From ACM News
Disney Researchers Add Virtual Touch to the Real World
Researchers at Disney have demonstrated a computer interface that changes the way ordinary, everyday objects feel using a weak electric signal fed through a user's...
From ACM News
Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real
In the summer of 2009, Yelp quietly added a feature to its iPhone app that blurred the line between the real and the virtual. If you held your handset up and looked...
From ACM TechNews
In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold
Since 2005, Google researcher and former Moscow State University student Petr Mitrichev has led the world in algorithmic programming.
From ACM News
Hey, Hackers: Defense Is Sexy, Too
Pleasing the crowd at the Black Hat and Def Con computer security conferences that took place in Las Vegas last week is relatively easy: simply hop on stage and...
From ACM TechNews
A Computer Infection That Can Never Be Cured
French hacker Jonathan Brossard recently developed Rakshasa, software that can be hidden inside the hardware of a PC, creating a backdoor that would allow secret...
From ACM News
Nsa Boss Wants More Control Over the 'net
The U.S. Internet's infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure...
From ACM TechNews
An App That Could Stop Traffic
German researchers have developed Greenway, a Windows phone application designed to help people avoid traffic jams and get drivers from one point to another in...
From ACM News
Gps Weakness Could Enable Mass Smartphone Hacking
Weaknesses in the technology that allows smartphone users to pinpoint themselves on a map, or check into restaurants and bars using apps such as Foursquare, could...
From ACM TechNews
The Latest Threat: A Virus Made Just For You
Georgia Tech's Paul Royal has shown that a newly refined technique could make automated analysis of malware nearly impossible, and he plans to reveal his work at...
From ACM TechNews