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 TechNews
An App For the Perfect Selfie
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada say they have developed a smartphone application to help people learn how to take better selfies.
From ACM TechNews
Are the World's Highest Paid Football Players Overpaid? Big Data Says Yes
Researchers have used machine learning and data science to analyze the salaries of 6,082 professional European football (soccer) players.
From ACM TechNews
Robots Could Act as Ethical Mediators Between Patients and Caregivers
Researchers hypothesize that robots that understand ethical issues would be able to observe interactions between patients and caregivers, and intervene when needed...
From ACM TechNews
How Apps Can Motivate You By Tapping Into Your Personality
Rita Orji at the University of Waterloo in Canada is designing interactive persuasive computer games customized to the player's motivational style.
From ACM TechNews
Wsu Physicists Write With Light, Turn Crystal Into an Electrical Circuit
Researchers at Washington State University have developed a method for writing an electrical circuit into a crystal.
From ACM News
Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields—but how do we make sure it behaves morally?
From ACM News
Chip Technology Could Help the Blind, Robots, See
Bio-inspired designs that encode light as time are ushering in systems as efficient as human neurology.
From ACM TechNews
Storing Data in Dna Brings Nature Into the Digital niverse
Researchers at the University of Washington currently hold the record for the amount of information stored in and retrieved from DNA molecules.
From ACM News
Crispr Fixes Disease Gene in Viable Human Embryos
An international team of researchers has used CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing—a technique that allows scientists to make precise changes to genomes with relative ease—to...
From ACM TechNews
How Neural Networks Are Transforming the World of Translation
Imperial College London professor Erol Gelenbe says artificial neural networks can ease language translation by executing a three-step process.
From ACM TechNews
'anonymous' Browsing Data Can Be Easily Exposed, Researchers Reveal
A German journalist and data scientist say they were able to easily obtain the "anonymous" online browsing information of more than 3 million Germans.
From ACM TechNews
4d Movies Capture People in Clothing, Creating Realistic Virtual Try-on
ClothCapture is new technology that can digitally capture clothing on moving people, turn it into a three-dimensional digital platform, and dress virtual avatars...
From ACM TechNews
Automatic Image Retouching on Your Phone
Researchers have developed a cellphone-based system that can automatically retouch images.
From ACM TechNews
Looking to the Future Through the First Autonomous Artificial Iris
Researchers have created an artificial iris that can react to light to the same degree as a human eye.
From ACM News
Deception Tech Helps to Thwart Hackers' Attacks
In World War II, the Allies employed all kinds of sneaky tricks to deceive their enemies into thinking they had more troops and weapons at their disposal than they...
From ACM TechNews
Living Computers: Rna Circuits Transform Cells Into Nanodevices
Researchers have developed a method for harnessing living cells to perform computations using self-assembling designer RNA circuits.
From ACM TechNews
Designing Computer Software of the Future
Researchers have demonstrated that quantum computing could be useful for speeding up the solutions to "semidefinite programs."
From ACM TechNews
To Build a Smarter Chatbot, First Teach It a Second Language
Researchers at Salesforce have developed a method that could improve the performance of modern language programs.
From ACM News
