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
Opening Doors on the Way to a Personal Robot
The ability to open doors is a significant step forward for robotics and an important milestone toward a personal robot industry. Such a milestone has been reached...
From ACM News
The Bar Code Is Taking a Leap Forward
Look closely at recent supermarket coupons, and you may see some new markings on them near the traditional bar code: sets of neat black bars stacked in two rows...
From ACM News
The Wars of Words on Wikipedia's Outskirts
It is an interesting twist about Wikipedia that the most controversial, most heavily trafficked articles — on abortion, politics, virgin birth — are often the most...
From ACM TechNews
Department Tackles Visa Delay for Researchers
The U.S. State Department has added workers and developed new procedures in an attempt to speed up the visa process for foreign graduate students and post-doctoral...
From ACM News
Pc Touch Screens Moving Beyond Mere Curiosity
The computer industry has a lot riding on your fingers. Companies have dabbled with the touch-screen technology for years. Apple elevated such technology from a...
From ACM TechNews
Obama Outlines Coordinated Cyber-Security Plan
U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the country's disjointed efforts to "deter, prevent, detect, and defend" against cyberattacks will now be run by the...
From ACM News
Contractors Vie For Plum Work, Hacking For U.s.
The U.S. government’s urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts. The...
From ACM TechNews
Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Computer Wars
The U.S. Pentagon is planning to establish a new cyberwarfare command as a complement to a soon-to-be-announced civilian computer network safety overhaul, according...
From ACM News
New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines
To stay one jump ahead of fraudsters and their automated rogue programs, researchers are devising more versions of CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test...
From ACM TechNews
IBM Unveils Real-Time Software to Find Trends in Vast Data Sets
IBM has unveiled System S, stream processing software capable of receiving huge volumes of data from numerous sources and quickly identifying correlations within...
From ACM TechNews
Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness
The Internet is rife with cybercriminals and online eavesdroppers, and countering this threat is the job of cybersleuths. One of the key tools in cybersleuths'...
From ACM News
'kill Switch' Disables Stolen Laptops
A lost or stolen laptop or notebook computer is replaceable; the stolen data inside it may produce real owner's anxiety. Which makes Fujitsu's newly announced "security...
From ACM TechNews
Cadets Trade the Trenches For Firewalls
Throughout the U.S. military there is heightened awareness that the threat of a computer attack is just as urgent as a physical attack, and that military units...
From ACM News
In Cellphone, India Reveals an Essence
Sometimes a technology comes along and crystallizes a cultural moment. Not since the automobile and the American in the 1950s, perhaps, have a technology and a...
From ACM TechNews
Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors
People around the world are circumventing their governments' censorship of Web content using tools developed and provided by a diverse coalition of political and...
From ACM TechNews
Panel Advises Clarifying U.S. Plans on Cyberwar
A report based on a three-year study by a panel assembled by the National Academy of Sciences says the United States does not have a clear military policy on how...
From ACM News
Computers Bring Efficiency to the Infrastructure
Low-cost sensors, clever software, and computing firepower are key ingredients of an emerging computing trend called smart infrastructure — efficient and environmentally...
From ACM TechNews
U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses
The United States is engaged in an international race to develop both cyberweapons and cyberdefenses. Thousands of daily attacks on federal and private computer...
From ACM TechNews
G.e.'s Breakthrough Can Put 100 Dvds on a Disc
General Electric (GE) holographic researchers have announced a digital storage breakthrough that will enable standard-sized disks to hold the equivalent of 100...
From ACM TechNews