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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Scientists Can Blind a Self-Driving Car From Seeing Pedestrians
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to prevent machine-vision systems from seeing specific categories of objects in a scene.
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Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...
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Every Continent, and One Time Lord, Turned Out For the March For Science
An estimated 600 March for Science rallies took place Saturday across the U.S., and across the globe.
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Teaching a Driverless Car to Turn Left
Getting driverless cars to make safe left turns at intersections is a key challenge for engineers, as they involve both psychology and technology.
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Combating Cancer With Data
Supercomputers will sift massive amounts of data in search of therapies that work.
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Making Chips Smarter
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are motivating researchers to design and build new chips to support different computing models.
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Bionics in Competition
Developers of innovative assistive devices compete as a means of networking with each other.
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Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps
A collaboration between researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Google has enabled the Internet company to reduce the number of fraudulent businesses...
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Could the S Take Out North Korea's Missiles Before Launch?
A failed missile launch in North Korea Sunday has brought renewed attention to reports that the United States is trying to degrade North Korea's missile capabilities...
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Can a Supercomputing Algorithm Kill Gerrymandering?
A new supercomputing algorithm can determine whether state legislative districts have been unfairly drawn, with the potential of reshaping U.S. electoral politics...
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How Youtube's Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media
At the age of 21, David Pakman started a little Massachusetts community radio talk program.
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Locking Out the Hackers
New hardware, services are aimed at identifying malware before it has the chance to execute.
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Don't Worry, Driverless Cars Are Learning From Grand Theft Auto
In the race to the autonomous revolution, developers have realized there aren't enough hours in a day to clock the real-world miles needed to teach cars how to...
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Your Phone's Power se Can Give Hackers an Opening
Researchers have shown even without a data cable, hackers can analyze a device's power needs to access users' private information.
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We Know What You're Watching (even If It's Encrypted)
I stand firm in the opinion that it's my basic, human right to binge-watch six hours of trashy detective shows on a Friday night with a silent phone in my lap and...
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sing Randomness to Protect Election Integrity
Vanderbilt University professor Eugene Vorobeychik and colleagues have combined game theory and computer security expertise to design a method for auditing electoral...
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'we All Love the Tomahawk:' A Brief History of .s.'s Favorite Robotic Killer
In the early hours of Friday morning, two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea launched a barrage of Tomahawk Land...
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Virginia Tech Professor Builds Algorithm to Detect Traces of Cyberbullying
Virginia Polytechnic and State University professor Bert Huang is working to develop an automatic system for detecting cyberbullying.
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Into the Breach
Cyber ratings firms help companies evaluate the risks of doing business.
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