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Google Boosts ACM's Turing Award Prize to $1 Million
The increase reflects the escalating impact of computing on daily life, through the innovations and technologies it enables.
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
Automated code or bots currently account for 56 percent of all of website visits, and a recent analysis of 20,000 websites found bot traffic can run as high as...
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Smart Transportation Networks Drive Gains
Transportation engineers and city planners are looking to information technology to redefine traffic management in urban areas. With the opportunity, however, comes...
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In Search of Bayesian Inference
Long relegated to the statistical backburner, Bayesian Inference is undergoing a renaissance.
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Downing North Korea's Internet Not Much of a Scalp
If someone did just knock North Korea off the Internet for half a day, it wouldn't have taken much.
From ACM TechNews
6 Aging Protocols That Could Cripple the Internet
The biggest threat to the Internet is that it evolved over time with various protocols, very few of which were designed with security in mind.
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What Does a Cyber Counterattack Look Like?
President Barack Obama promised at his year-end news conference Friday that the U.S. will respond "proportionally" to North Korea's cyberattack against Sony Pictures...
From ACM Careers
The Anti-Plagiarism Machine
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.
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German Researchers Discover a Flaw That Could Let Anyone Listen to Your Cell Calls
German researchers have discovered security flaws that could enable hackers, spies, and criminals to listen to private phone calls and intercept text messages....
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Is There a Cyber Security Equivalent of 'seal Team Six'?
When a cyber breach goes down…who you gonna call? Many different U.S. government agencies, it turns out.
From ACM Opinion
Sony Made It Easy, but Any of S Could Get Hacked
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems and began revealing many...
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The Big Business of Selling Prescription-Drug Records
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...
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How to Fool a Computer With Optical Illusions
Computers, like people, understand what they see in the world based on what they've seen before.
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Quantum Physics Makes Fraud-Proof Credit Cards Possible
Researchers at the University of Twente have used quantum mechanics to develop a method for protecting financial data and personal information. The method can confirm...
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Forget Passwords, a Student Research Team Wants You to Log in By Speaking a Sentence
Student researchers at California State University, Fullerton are developing new biometric security technologies, including those based on facial recognition, fingerprints...
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
Diogo Mónica once wrote a short computer script that gave him a secret weapon in the war for San Francisco dinner reservations.
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4 Seconds of Body Cam Video Can Reveal a Biometric Fingerprint, Study Says
Researchers say they can have computers examine body camera video footage and accurately identify a person wearing a body-mounted device in about four seconds,a...
From ACM Opinion
Dumbing It Down in the Cockpit
Long gone are the leather jackets, goggles, and silk scarves flung over the shoulders of aviators who wrestled with flight controls, furiously scanned instruments...
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Data From Our Wearables Is Now Courtroom Fodder
Courtrooms typically lag in technological innovation.
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