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
Email as Therapy
Many people find in-person counseling threatening, and may prefer the flexibility of message-based mental health services.
From ACM News
The FTC's New Enforcement Weapon Spells Death for Algorithms
It may have found a new standard for penalizing tech companies that violate privacy and use deceptive data practices: algorithmic destruction.
From ACM News
Moore's Law: Scientists Just Made a Graphene Transistor Gate the Width of an Atom
To be clear, the work is a proof of concept: the researchers haven't meaningfully scaled the approach.
From ACM News
Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare
The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.
From ACM TechNews
The March of the Penguins Has a New Star: An Autonomous Robot
Researchers built a ground vehicle that may be operated in autonomous or remote-controlled modes to study hundreds of Emperor penguins in Antarctica.
From ACM TechNews
Most People are Cool with Implanting Chips in Their Brains, but Only if They Can Turn Them Off
More than three-quarters of U.S. adults polled were against surgically implanting a chip in their brains to improve their cognitive abilities.
From ACM TechNews
How Native Americans Try to Debug AI's Biases
At the recent American Indian Science and Engineering Society, students in a workshop created metadata to train an algorithm to understand an image's cultural significance...
From ACM News
ACM, CSTA Announce 2021–22 Cutler-Bell Student Winners
Four students were recognized for their engagement in computer science.
From ACM News
Russia Finds Meta Guilty of 'Extremist Activity,' but WhatsApp Can Stay
Moscow court says Meta engaged in "extremist activity."
From ACM News
A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good
FIDO is looking to get to the heart of what still makes passwordless schemes tough to navigate.
From ACM News
Helping A.I. to Learn About Indigenous Cultures
Data on Native communities are not at the levels needed for accuracy in A.I.-driven tools. A group is trying to solve that problem.
From ACM News
Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-Friendly
Facing intense criticism, the crypto mining industry is trying to change the view that its energy-guzzling computers are harmful to the climate.
From ACM News
The Workaday Life of the World's Most Dangerous Ransomware Gang
A Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,000 messages from inside Conti. Here's what they reveal.
From Communications of the ACM
Can AI Learn to Forget?
Specialized techniques may make it possible to induce selective 'amnesia' in machine learning models.
From Communications of the ACM
Still Waiting for Self-Driving Cars
Why is it taking so long for autonomous vehicles to hit the road?
From Communications of the ACM
Technology's Impact on Morality
Leading technologists and thinkers are concerned about technology's impact on our ethical thinking.
From ACM News
Announcing the 2022 AI Index Report
The AI Index tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence.
From ACM News
Leaked Ransomware Docs Show Conti Helping Putin From the Shadows
Members of the hacker gang may act in Russia's interest, but their links to the FSB and Cozy Bear hackers appear ad hoc.
From ACM News