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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A Glimpse Into the Future of Robotic Technology
The European Union-funded EYESHOTS project has developed a model robot that can acquire awareness of its surroundings and use its memory to reach for objects.
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Ios and Android Weaknesses Allow Stealthy Pilfering of Website Credentials
A weakness in both the iOS and Android mobile operating systems makes it possible for hackers to steal sensitive user data and login credentials.
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How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study
Surveillance is certainly much in the news lately. Most notably, of course, there is the continuing outcry over the National Security Agency’s call-tracking program...
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Wearable Robots Are No Longer Science Fiction
Exoskeletons will address military, medical, commercial applications.
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Why Video Games May Be Good For You
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.
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How a Look at Your Gmail Reveals the Power of Metadata
Sometimes you have to give up a little privacy in order to find out how much—or how little—privacy you really have.
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Google+ Posts Getting Language Translation Services
The Google+ translation feature will enable desktop users to rapidly receive basic translations when other users make posts in languages other than their own.
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NIST Study Advances Use of Iris Images as a Long-Term Form of Identification
Biometric researchers studying iris stability have determined that no consistent change occurs in the distinguishing texture of irises for at least a decade.
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Twitter 'joke Bots' Shame Human Sense of Humor
Two Twitter bots generate phrases that are funny by virtue of not being particularly funny, to poke fun at human tweeters' own attempts at humor.
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Productivity Tools For Cybercrime
Stealing 10 million dollars a few hundred dollars at a time used to be too labor-intensive to be a great business.
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As Tennis Stats Proliferate, Software Tries to Make Sense of It All
SlamTracker software sifts through 20 years of data to predict how tennis players could perform under various circumstances.
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Researchers Granted Patent For System That Fuses Human and Computer Intelligence
The creators of a system that integrates human and computer intelligence to support decision-making in crisis situations have been awarded a U.S. patent.
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Why Can't My Computer nderstand Me?
University of Toronto computer scientist Hector Levesque recently presented a paper highlighting the flaws in artificial intelligence.
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Laser Listening: Could You Eavesdrop on the Guardian?
The U.K. government has warned the Guardian newspaper that foreign agents could use laser technology to eavesdrop on them, in the wake of recent surveillance leaks...
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Ephemeral Data
Privacy issues can evaporate when embarrassing content does likewise.
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Remembering Douglas Engelbart
"Inspiring," "visionary," "humble," "honest," "impeccable integrity," "passionate and stubborn about his work." Tributes poured in for Douglas Engelbart, inventor...
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35 Innovators Under 35
For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs, we're presenting the stories in a new way.
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A Quantum Leap for the Government in Mining Twitter Feeds
Last August, around fifty government employees and private contractors gathered at a Defense Department development laboratory in Crystal City, Virginia.
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