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 News
Engage: Apple's New Tools For Interactive Books on Ipad
Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It's one of the few psychological terms in education that...
From ACM News
Google's Data Center Engineer Shares Secrets of 'warehouse' Computing
Luiz André Barroso doesn't see Google's data centers as data centers. He sees them as computers the size of warehouses.
From ACM News
Marines Want iPads to Control Robo-Copter Brains
It's been less than a month since the Marines flew their first robotic supply helicopter on its debut combat mission in Afghanistan.
From ACM News
Risky Rescue for Crippled Air Force Satellite
It was an epic space rescue that, in audacity and risk, echoed NASA's campaign to save the astronauts aboard the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission.
From ACM News
Apple Patent Describes New Type of Face-Recognition Tech
Swipe to unlock could be a thing of the past for next-gen iOS devices. Like current Galaxy Nexus users, iOS users could soon be using facial recognition technology...
From ACM News
Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook For the 99%
As part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a team of Web and mobile application developers is redesigning social networking for the era of global protests.
From ACM News
How Ibm Saw 2012 in 2007: Where's My Mind-Reading Cellphone?
The brainiacs at IBM made some pretty far-out predictions this week: In five years, they say, you won't need passwords, there will be no more digital divide,...
From ACM News
Mystery Men Forge Servers For Giants of Internet
If you drive down highway 880 from Oakland, Calif., take an exit about 30 miles south, and snake past a long line of car dealerships, you’ll find an ordinary...
From ACM News
Prof Promises Supercomputer on Every Desktop
When Wu Feng looks at an iPad, he sees something more than a great way to play Fruit Ninja.
From ACM News
Iran's Alleged Drone Hack: Tough, but Possible
Take everything that Iran says about its captured U.S. drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn't implausible...
From ACM News
Warning to Gossipy Grunts: Darpa's Eyeing Your Email
The Pentagon's intent on weeding out "insider threats"—troops or other military personnel who might be disgruntled enough to (Wiki)leak some documents or mentally...
From ACM News
It Won't Be Easy For Iran to Dissect, Copy .s. Drone
Prepare the dissection table. Iran says it’s planning to disassemble its prized acquisition: a CIA-operated drone that apparently crashed in its territory. Its...
From ACM Careers
Facebook Auditions Kid Hackers with All-Night Codefest
"Yes! We have elegance!" says a student from the University of Waterloo. Then he pauses, and his shoulders slump.
From ACM News
Comedy of Errors Led to False 'water-Pump Hack' Report
It was the broken water pump heard 'round the world. Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Russian hackers had remotely...
From ACM News
It's a Drone's World. We Just Live in It
Drones have had a profound effect on the way America fights its wars, allowing it to fight in new theaters while minimizing the risk to troops.
From ACM News
The Problem With Landing Humans on Mars (and How to Fix It)
When NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory—scheduled to lift-off from Cape Canaveral later this week—touches down on the Red Planet in August of 2012, the one-ton probe...
From ACM News
H(ackers)2O: Attack on City Water Station Destroys Pump
Hackers gained remote access into the control system of the city water utility in Springfield, Illinois, and destroyed a pump, according to a report released...
From ACM News
China Looms Large in Race of the Supercomputers
Ten years ago, a ranking of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers included precisely three entries from China. The most powerful of these—a system used to...
From ACM News
DARPA Looks to Protect Drones from Hack Attacks
Cybersecurity, as interpreted by the Pentagon’s premiere researcher, isn’t just about protecting data networks. It’s about making the military’s killer drones...
From ACM News