Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM News
Nsa Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged .s. Cryptography Standard
In the three months since Edward Snowden began his whistle-blowing campaign against the National Security Agency (NSA) the former government contractor has exposed...
From ACM TechNews
Suspect Nist Crypto Standard Long Thought to Have a Back Door
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology advises against using the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation standard.
From ACM TechNews
Linux Kernel Luminaries Talk Enterprise, Embedded and Why They're Coming Together
Although developing the Linux kernel is a difficult and complicated process, it also is one that is moving ahead with some speed.
From ACM News
Apple: The 64-Bit Question
There's been an interesting sideshow in tech land since Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S last week: Does having the first 64-bitmicroprocessor in a phone mean anything...
From ACM Opinion
Why Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction
How will police use a gun that immobilizes its target but does not kill? What would people do with a device that could provide them with any mood they desire? What...
From ACM News
Google May Ditch 'cookies' As Online Ad Tracker
Google, the world's largest Internet search company, is considering a major change in how online browsing activity is tracked, a move that could shake up the $120...
From ACM News
NASA Curiosity Rover Detects No Methane on Mars
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S. and...
From ACM News
Secret Court Declassifies Opinion Providing Rationale For Metadata Sharing
For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the ...
From ACM Opinion
The New National Identity Is What Smartphone You Prefer, and Nobody's Quite Sure Why
In a fascinating note at Asymco, mobile analyst and ex-Nokian Horace Dediu details how people's taste in smartphones varies from place to place:
From ACM News
Improving the Big Data Toolkit
Open source software tends to march into the marketplace step by step, a quiet but steady strategy compared with the grand marketing events of the commercial software...
From ACM Careers
Teaching Computers to See–by Learning to See Like Computers
By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the recognition systems'...
From ACM News
NASA's Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration
In 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth on a five-year mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Thirty-six years later, the car-size probe is still exploring...
From ACM Opinion
Behold! Jonathan Ive's Apple
Apple is today releasing the much-anticipated iOS 7, and with it, the biggest overhaul of its mobile operating system since it debuted in 2007 with the original...
From ACM News
Nasa's Asteroid-In-A-Bag Recipe
"It’s not as crazy as it seemed at the beginning," Charles Elachi, the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Washington Post, about NASA's latest...
From ACM News
Ambivalence on Civil Liberties, Terrorism
When it comes to the balance between civil liberties and the war on terrorism, Americans seem to want the best of both worlds.
From ACM News
Harvey's Injury Shows Pitchers Have a Speed Limit
Glenn Fleisig's rather unusual laboratory has a pitcher's mound and a home plate, and when he rigs people up to throw a baseball, their motion is analyzed with...
From ACM TechNews
Robots Take Over
A recent study suggests that for periods of less than one second, the financial world becomes a cyberenvironment inhabited by packs of aggressive trading algorithms...
From ACM Opinion