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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From ACM Careers
Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...
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More Female International Students Pursue STEM Degrees at .s. niversities
More female international students are attending U.S. universities to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math degrees.
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ser-Controlled System Makes It Possible to Instantly Revoke Access to Files Hosted on Internet Cloud Servers
Access to cloud-hosted data can be controlled in real time by securing data files with a proxy key.
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Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels
Artificial intelligence and robotics are leading a transformation in Silicon Valley expected to be as significant as the personal computing and commercial Internet...
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In Wake of Shootings, Facebook Struggles to Define Hate Speech
In the wake of last week's shootings, Facebook has seen a significant spike in flagged content, with users calling out each other's posts as racist, violent and...
From ACM TechNews
How to Keep More Girls in It at Schools If We're to Close the Gender Gap
The gender gap in the information technology industry is underscored by a lack of engagement of girls in computing and IT education.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Setting p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe
Neural networks are changing the Internet.
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If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why
Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...
From ACM TechNews
Boston Is Nation's Top Tech-Talent Exporter
The U.S. technology worker population currently totals 4.8 million, according to CBRE's 2016 Scoring Tech Talent report.
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Eu Plans $2b Investment in Cybersecurity Research
The European Union is contributing $500 million to fund research into cybersecurity, and is asking the private sector to contribute an additional $1.5 billion.
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A Celebration of Women in Hpc
Recent events held by the Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) network have focused on resolving the lack of gender diversity in HPC.
From ACM Opinion
Obama's Top Scientist Talks Shrinking Budgets, Donald Trump, and His Biggest Regret
John Holdren is no stranger to the spotlight. Over his long career in science, Holdren—a physicist by training—has worked on controversial issues such as climate...
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Iot Transforming Taiwan's Tech Sector
As desktop and laptop computer sales recede, hardware-proud Taiwan searches for new directions in the Internet of Things.
From ACM Opinion
How to Stop Robocalls … or at Least Fight Back
"This is a final notice from the IRS."
From ACM Careers
Trump's Secret Data Reversal
Donald Trump has dismissed political data operations as "overrated," but his campaign is now bolstering its online fundraising and digital outreach by turning to...
From Communications of the ACM
Booming Enrollments
The Computing Research Association works to quantify the extent, and causes, of a jump in undergraduate computer science enrollments.
From ACM News
Goodbye, Password. Banks Opt to Scan Fingers and Faces Instead.
The banking password may be about to expire—forever.
From ACM TechNews
Report: California Colleges Produce Low Number of STEM Graduates
California has far fewer students graduating with science, technology, engineering, and math degrees from public colleges and universities than the state's businesses...
From ACM TechNews