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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Surveillance-Based Manipulation: How Facebook or Google Could Tilt Elections
Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us.
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How Madden Ratings Are Made
Hunched over a keyboard, surrounded by computer monitors, Donny Moore, 37, controls the fate of the National Football League.
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Nasa's Curiosity Mars Rover Drills at 'telegraph Peak'
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its drill on Tuesday, Feb. 24 to collect sample powder from inside a rock target called "Telegraph Peak." The target sits in the...
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S Government and Private Sector Developing 'precrime' System to Anticipate Cyber-Attacks
The USA's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is soliciting the involvement of the private and academic sectors in developing a new 'precrime'...
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How the Military Will Fight Isis on the Dark Web
The Dark Web is not so much a place as it is a method of achieving a level of anonymity online.
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Game-Playing Software Holds Lessons For Neuroscience
DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial-intelligence company, has revealed how it created a single computer algorithm that can learn how to play 49 different arcade...
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New Display Technology Lets Lcds Produce Princess Leia-Style Holograms
During a famous scene in Star Wars, Princess Leia has R2D2 play a holographic video message in midair in which she pleads for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the near...
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Surprise! America Already Has a Manhattan Project For Developing Cyber Attacks
"What we really need is a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity." It's a sentiment that swells up every few years in the wake of some huge computer intrusion—most...
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The Four Main Roadblocks Holding p Self-Driving Cars
There are four major obstacles facing developers of autonomous vehicles.
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Intel: Moore's Law Will Continue Through 7nm Chips
Papers Intel plans to share this week are meant to reassure the computer industry about the viability of Moore's Law, at least for the immediate future.
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What Clever Robots Mean For Jobs
For a long time economists maintained that new technology would not result in a net loss of jobs, but some economists now think the situation is more nuanced than...
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The Plan to Find Alien Life in Europa's Icy Seas
How do you solve a problem like Europa?
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Building a Face, and a Case, on Dna
There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years ago. No security cameras caught a figure coming or going.
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This Is Your Avatar Speaking
Last year, in a lab at the University of Barcelona, an anonymous woman was fitted with headphones, a microphone, a head-mounted virtual-reality display, a motion...
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Document Reveals Growth of Cyberwarfare Between the .S. and Iran
A newly disclosed National Security Agency document illustrates the striking acceleration of the use of cyberweapons by the United States and Iran against eachnuclear...
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Rare Stegosaurus Skeleton Delivers Secrets Through 3D Scanning
In 2013, London's Natural History Museum acquired a rare Stegosaurus skeleton.
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Polymers Brighten Hopes For Visible Light Communication
Today nearly all computers, tablets, and cell phones have Wi-Fi capabilities, receiving and transmitting data over a range of radio frequencies.
From Communications of the ACM
Car Talk
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication is coming. Are we ready for it?
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