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.
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No Internet? No Problem. Inside Cuba's Tech Revolution
Robin Pedraja, a lanky 28-year-old former design student from Havana, walked into the Cuban government’s office of periodicals and publications early last year...
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China Adopts New Security Law to Make Networks, Systems 'controllable'
China's legislature adopted a sweeping national security law on Wednesday that covers everything from territorial sovereignty to measures to tighten cyber security...
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Georgia Tech Researchers Train Computer to Create Games By Watching Youtube
Researchers have developed a computing system that views video game play on streaming services, analyzes the footage, and then creates new sections of a game.
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Computer Comedian Suggests Pics to Make Your Online Chat Funnier
New software can bring a sense of humor to online chat.
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When a Company Is Put p For Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too
The privacy policy for Hulu, a video-streaming service with about nine million subscribers, opens with a declaration that the company "respects your privacy."
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c Santa Cruz Team Introduces New Web-Based Tools For Finding Videogames
GameNet and GameSage are two Web-based tools to help game players find new games suited to their individual tastes.
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Bringing Big Data to the Big Tent
Open source tools assist data science.
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The New Smart Cities
How urban information systems are slowly revamping the modern metropolis.
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ACM Announces 2014 Award Recipients
Recognizing excellence in technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology.
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Will Millimeter Waves Maximize 5g Wireless?
Every decade or so since the first cellular networks appeared the companies that make mobile devices and the networks linking them have worked out new requirements...
From ACM Careers
Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age
To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.
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Want Your Writing to Look Like Einstein's? Computers Mimic Handwriting of the Famous
Harald Geisler wants to make you as brilliant as Albert Einstein. Or at least let you write like him. Or at least write in his handwriting.
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Getting 'physical' and Emotional in Virtual Reality
If you think about virtual reality, you probably think of it as the place where gamers don an Oculus headset and go shoot up enemies in 3D or travel space.
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How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
Nicole Keplinger, 22, had long seen ads on Facebook promising financial relief, but she always ignored them and assumed that they were scams.
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Can Google Fix Gesture Tech with Tiny, All-Knowing Sensors?
Ivan Poupyrev looks like he's playing the world's smallest violin.
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Household Robots Are Here, but Where Are They Going?
Social robots like the quasi-anthropomorphic Jibo and Amazon's far more utilitarian Echo are beginning to find their places in our living rooms.
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'deep Learning' Will Soon Give S Super-Smart Robots
Yann LeCun is among those bringing a new level of artificial intelligence to popular internet services from the likes of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
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Behind the Downfall at Blackberry
Ever since Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of BlackBerry, neither has spoken much in public about the once-dominant...
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Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Avatar
Researchers have developed a system to track the facial expressions of users wearing a virtual-reality headset and transfer them to a virtual avatar.
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