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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Intel Takes Wraps Off 50-Core Supercomputing Coprocessor Plans
Intel's Larrabee GPU will finally go into commercial production next year, but not as a graphics processor. Instead, it will make its debut in a 50-core incarnation...
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Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin...
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Inspired By Insect Intelligence
Monash University researchers are developing wireless sensor networks based on insects' neural systems that could revolutionize how environmental systems, building...
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Botclouds: A Cyberattacker's Dream
Delft University researchers are studying how botclouds can be used to launch attacks, send spam, and commit fraud.
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Cloud Storage Providers Need Sharper Billing Metrics
Cloud service providers could be doing themselves or their customers a disservice by relying on imprecise metrics for billing, says Carnegie Mellon University researcher...
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How to Make a Clock Run For 10,000 Years
High on a rocky ridge in the desert, nestled among 5,000-year-old bristlecone pines, is the topmost part of a clock that has been ticking for thousands of years...
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Eff and Bitcoin
For several months, EFF has been following the movement around Bitcoin, an electronic payment system that touts itself as "the first decentralized digital currency...
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Apple's New Multitouch Patent (faq)
Apple picked up a patent Tuesday that could come in very handy in today's thicket of smartphone-related intellectual property litigation.
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Kilobots Are Cheap Enough to Swarm in the Thousands
Kilobots are fairly simple little robots about the size of a quarter that can move around on vibrating legs, blink their lights, and communicate with each other...
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Free App Protects Facebook Accounts From Hackers
University of California, Riverside researchers have developed MyPageKeeper.org, a free Facebook application that detects spam and malware posted on users' walls...
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Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone
Not too long ago, theorists fretted that the Internet was a place where anonymity thrived. Now, it seems, it is the place where anonymity dies.
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ACM Award Recipients
Craig Gentry, Kurt Mehlhorn, and other computer scientists are honored for their research and service.
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Brave, New Social World
How three different individuals in three different countries — Brazil, Egypt, and Japan — use Facebook, Twitter, and other social-media tools.
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Weighing Watson's Impact
Does IBM's Watson represent a distinct breakthrough in machine learning and natural language processing or is the 2,880-core wunderkind merely a solid feat of engineering...
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Careless Behavior of Cloud sers Leads to Crucial Security Threats
Cloud computing security experts often focus on the underlying infrastructure and provider, but a new analysis from Fraunhofer SIT and the System Security Lab at...
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Software Extracts Your Location on Twitter Even When It's Secret
Users of online social media reveal more about themselves than they realize, and participation involves a great deal more trust than they think, suggests new research...
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With Anonymous and Lulzsec, Is Anyone Believable?
For several months, hackers have been having a heyday taking down Web sites and leaking data from compromised servers with victims ranging from the CIA and U.S...
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Web Addresses Enter New.era
On Monday, the organization that regulates the world's Internet domain names—yes, there is central coordination—approved changes that could allow anyone to register...
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Spies Can Send Messages Hidden in a Google Search
The peculiar list of search options that Google suggests as you type in a query could be hijacked to let people communicate secretly.
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