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 Careers
No More R
Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst.
From ACM News
Apple Makes Push Into Ipad Textbooks
Apple Inc. on Thursday introduced tools designed to spur the development of textbooks and other classroom materials for devices like the iPad, in the company's...
From ACM News
Avoiding Innovation's Terrible Toll
The corporation isn't a sturdy species. In fact, only a tiny fraction reach the age of 40, according to study of more than six million firms by management professors...
From ACM News
Pick Up the Phone, Nfl: The Future Is Calling
On the sidelines during every game, New York Jets cornerback Donald Strickland performs a trick familiar to any toddler who has ever held a flip book.
From ACM News
Citizen Scientists
Ordinary people are taking control of their health data, making their DNA public and running their own experiments. Their big question: Why should science be...
From ACM News
Feds Shift Tracking Defense
The U.S. Department of Justice now says its use of a cellphone-tracking device in a controversial Arizona case could be considered a "search" under the Fourth...
From ACM News
Design Spotlight Is Thrown on Ive
Without Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. investors and customers are asking a big question: Can it continue to turn out innovative products without its co-founder and design...
From ACM News
Decoding Our Chatter
Want to monitor an earthquake, track political activity or predict the ups and downs of the stock market? Researchers have found a bonanza of real-time data in...
From ACM News
Family Pioneers in Exploration of the Genome
A group of researchers said that by examining the whole genome of a family of four, they were able to make unusually specific findings, including the daughter's...
From ACM News
On Your Mark, Get Set, Hack!
During a "hackathon" last year, GroupMe co-founders Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht built a group text-messaging service in one 24-hour stretch. In August, the...
From ACM News
Google Takes On Friend Sprawl
Google Inc. launched its most ambitious social-networking effort yet, broadening a battle with Facebook Inc. to grab the attention of Web users and future advertising...
From ACM News
Web Addresses Enter New.era
On Monday, the organization that regulates the world's Internet domain names—yes, there is central coordination—approved changes that could allow anyone to register...
From ACM News
Google Missed 'friend Thing'
Google Inc. executive chairman Eric Schmidt said one of his biggest failures as chief executive of the search giant over the last decade was grappling with the...
From ACM News
The Best Error Pages on the Web
Anyone who has spent enough time online has at one point reached a dead end–known in Internet parlance as a 404 page. So what causes them? Web designers are coming...
From ACM News
Spy Planes Played Indispensable Role in Mission
The raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan represents probably the biggest success so far of a revolution in military technology: the ability to relay...
From ACM News
A Stitch in Time... at the Speed of Smartphones
Your grandmother's hobby is going high-tech. Amid sewing's pop-culture revival, makers of sewing machines are cutting no corners in their appeal to the next generation...
From ACM News
Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30
Matthew Rothman bought an HP 12c financial calculator for his first job out of college in 1989. Years later, he still has the same calculator. And he still uses...
From ACM News
Sony Brings In High-Tech Sleuths
New details emerged about Sony Corp.'s investigation into one of the biggest data breaches in history, as the company attempts to piece together who stole personal...
From ACM News
China: 900 Million Mobile sers Asking Themselves "iphone or Android"?
In Apple's second quarter, iPhone sales in China surged nearly 250% year over year, making the country the iPhone's fastest growing market—a title it will retain...
From ACM News