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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Poll Star: Rice Team Sets Sights on Better Voting Machine
A recent report says U.S. election officials face an "impending crisis" as they try to replace voting systems they bought after Florida's flawed 2000 election.
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States Ditch Electronic Voting Machines
Nearly 70 percent of voters are expected to cast paper ballots this week in the United States.
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Directing Planes, By Remote Control
On a clear day, Per Granquist cannot see forever. But from his perch inside the airport control tower here, he does have an unobstructed view of the future.
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Study: Some Online Shoppers Pay More Than Others
The personalization of online content can be both beneficial and detrimental to users, according to a study by Northeastern University researchers.
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Ghosts in the Machine Language
Four of this year's most dangerous software exploits were examples of vulnerabilities that lay undiscovered in widely utilized code for years.
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Keeping Online Reviews Honest
As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.
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Researchers Simplify Parallel Programming
Parallel computing has become increasingly important as chipmakers put more and more processor cores on individual chips.
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sing Drones to Make Peace, Not War
Amin Rigi says drones should be used to save lives, not spy or kill.
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Irish Researchers Develop New Tool to Protect Earth From Space Debris
In collaboration with the European Space Agency, researchers at Trinity College in Dublin have designed a risk assessment tool for the re-entry of spacecraft debris...
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How Technology Is Helping Fight Ebola
A wide variety of technologies, from apps and software to big data and robots, are being employed to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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Electronics in the Operating Room
Electronic devices increasingly are being incorporated into surgical procedures on a functional level.
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How Movie-Makers Read Your Mind
Why is there such interest in finding new ways to gauge audience reactions?
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Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions
Bob Foreman's architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March.
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Open Surveillance
A new encrypted search system could enable law enforcement officials to collect data more openly without compromising investigations.
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.s. Government Probes Medical Devices For Possible Cyber Flaws
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating about two dozen cases of suspected cybersecurity flaws in medical devices and hospital equipment that...
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.s. National Security Prosecutors Shift Focus from Spies to Cyber
The U.S. Justice Department is restructuring its national security prosecution team to deal with cyber attacks and the threat of sensitive technology ending up...
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How the World Came to Be Run By Computer Code
From the scythe to the steam engine, we've always used technology to control the world around us.
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Wearable Tech Lets Boss Track Your Work, Rest and Play
Some jobs come with a uniform. For an increasing number of employees, that uniform will soon include a badge that tracks everything they do.
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The Quiet Rise of the Satellite Spy Agency
As far as intelligence agencies go, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has remained relatively low profile—attracting neither the intrigue of, say, the...
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