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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How to Invent a Person Online
On April 8, 2013, I received an envelope in the mail from a nonexistent return address in Toledo, Ohio.
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Digging Through Big Data to Find Alien Life
Back in the 1970s, scientists at Ohio State University began searching for signs of intelligent alien life using a radio telescope the size of three football fields...
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Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body
Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
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U.s. Government Chatbot Gets You to Tell All
Want access to the U.S. government's secrets? Talk to the robot.
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For Half, STEM Degrees Lead to Other Jobs
A recent U.S. Census Bureau report says only about 26 percent of those who graduate with a four-year degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM)...
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Built For Speed: Designing Exascale Computers
Researchers at Harvard University are focused on developing the hardware and software for exascale computers, while others are planning to apply exascale computing...
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Surface Impressions of Rosetta's Comet
Surface structures are becoming visible in new images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the scientific imaging system OSIRIS onboard the European Space...
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How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon's Cloud
Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing...
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Scientists Enlist Big Data to Guide Conservation Efforts
Researchers have developed a model that uses big data to help biologists understand the evolutionary history of life on Earth.
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More Eyes on the Skies
The future, it is often said, belongs to those who plan for it.
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Harold Edgerton: The Man Who Froze Time
Every time you use the flash on your smartphone or camera, you should give silent praise to Harold Eugene Edgerton.
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Researchers Probe Security Through Obscurity
Obfuscation protects code by making it so impenetrable that access to it won't help a hacker understand how it works.
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Epsrc Calls For Partners to Develop Alan Turing Institute
The U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council wants to partner with U.K. universities to establish the Alan Turing Institute.
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Indonesian Techies Crowdsource Election Results
A trio of Indonesians working for international tech companies have used crowdsourcing to calculate a result for Indonesia's contested presidential election.
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How Technology Is Unraveling the Clues of Flight Mh17
Over the weekend, the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 tragedy turned into a "Law and Order" episode on the international stage with Secretary of State John Kerrymake...
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The Growing Threat of Network-Based Steganography
Researchers have uncovered Duqu, an unusual form of steganography-based malware that embeds itself in Microsoft Windows machines.
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Talk on Cracking Internet Anonymity Service Tor Canceled
A highly anticipated talk on how to identify users of the Internet privacy service Tor was withdrawn from the upcoming Black Hat security conference, a spokeswoman...
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In Defense of Science
Steady, sufficient investments in basic research are necessary to ensure the continued success of the U.S. in the future, four expert witnesses testified to Congress...
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