Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Can a Court Make You Give Up Your Password?
Can the government force you to give up your password in the course of an investigation against you? That’s the controversial debate that’s shaping up in U.S....
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Help Nasa Code Its Way Through Space
If you'd like to work on software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on.
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Google's Chrome Page No Longer Ranks For 'browser' After Sponsored Post Penalty
Searches for "browser" no longer bring up the Google Chrome home page after Google applied a penalty against the page because of Google's own sponsored post campaign...
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Robots Put You in Two Places at Once
Mike Fennelly isn't easily surprised by cutting-edge technologies, but when he started as an IT guy at a Silicon Valley startup called Evernote, he was caught...
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Apple Power Adapters Could Remember Your Passwords
Apple has worked out a way in which the power cords for computers or smartphones can help people recover their forgotten login passwords—or the answers to secret...
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Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools
Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq.
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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...
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Eyeball-Movement-Based Navigation Shifting From Helping the Disabled to Mainstream se?
That Kindle Fire you got for Christmas may be pretty cool, but what if it could flip the book pages without requiring you to lift a finger?
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The Touchy-Feely Future of Technology
In 1975, when then-composer and performer Bill Buxton started designing his own digital musical instruments, he had no way of knowing he was helping to spark...
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Apropos Appropriation
One recent afternoon in the offices of the Midtown law firm run by David Boies and his powerful litigation partners, a large black clamshell box sat on a conference...
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John McCarthy, 1927 - 2011
Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
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Analyzing Apple Products
Researchers untangle the complex web of Apple's global supply chain — and offer lessons for managers and policymakers trying to chart the future course of U.S....
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Celebration Time
The centennial celebrations of Alan Turing's birth might help turn a quiet British genius into an iconic global hero.
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Law and Disorder
International law has always been a murky and Byzantine area. However, the Internet and digital technology have raised the stakes, the risks, and the challenges...
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Better Medicine Through Machine Learning
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.
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Cheating Spreads Like Infections in Online Games
Online gaming communities are investing significant resources to find and stop cheaters.
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Mexico's Cartels Build Own National Radio System
When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming.
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The Emergence of a Digital Money Ecosystem
At the beginning of this year I wrote that the transition to universal mobile digital money is likely to be among the most exciting, important and challenging...
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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,...
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