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
Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...
From ACM News
In Video-Streaming Rat Race, Fast Is Never Fast Enough
On average, YouTube streams 4 billion hours of video per month.
From ACM News
Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them?
There are three things that matter in consumer data collection: location, location, location.
From ACM Opinion
The Future According to Google's Larry Page
When Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google this past fall, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood...
From ACM News
U.s. Warns on Java Software As Security Concerns Escalate
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp's Java software, amplifying security experts' prior warnings to hundreds of...
From ACM News
Leap Motion, Others Look Beyond the Mouse and Keyboard
There was a time when the mouse and keyboard were the two primary ways to interact with a computer. Then came touch screens, and the idea of "natural input" became...
From ACM News
Mobile Apps Drive Rapid Change in Searches
When the Federal Trade Commission decided last week to close its antitrust investigation of Google without charges, one important factor, though hardly mentioned...
From ACM News
How Fast Does 'Virtual Reality' Have to Be to Look Like 'Actual Reality'?
For decades now, virtual reality has been a pipe dream concept, well ahead of the technology needed to realize it.
From ACM News
Digital Globes Offer a Dynamic Vision
In the main hall of the hands-on science exhibits at the Cape Town Science Center in South Africa, a lifeless, tattered globe stands under naked fluorescent bulbs...
From ACM News
Mapping Malware's Genome to Fight Future Attacks
Every year a computer worm emerges to stalk the Internet, each one seemingly bigger and badder than the last (see diagram).
From ACM Careers
Can This Man Save Pinball?
The last guys who tried to save pinball bet all their quarters on a bunch of 3D aliens.
From ACM News
Student Suspended For Refusing to Wear Rfid Tracker Loses Lawsuit
A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the "Mark of the Beast" because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip...
From ACM TechNews
Researchers se Data From Traffic App to Identify High Frequency Accident Locations
Geosocial networks such as the global positioning system traffic app Waze could aid the police in their effort to deploy resources to high-frequency accident locations...
From ACM News
It's All About the Genes and the Brain Machines
The amount of time and money needed to sequence genomes continued to fall in 2012, perhaps to no one’s surprise.
From ACM News
Feds Requiring 'black Boxes' in All Motor Vehicles
While many automakers have voluntarily installed the devices already, the National Transportation Safety Agency wants to hear your comments by February 11 on its...
From ACM News
Antarctic Irc: How Nasa's Flying Lab Stays Connected
Mars and Antarctica have a lot in common: They're both cold, inhospitable places with terrible broadband service.
From ACM Opinion
Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs
It's hard to believe you'd have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.
From ACM News
All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player
Congratulations. Reading the first paragraph of this article has earned you a badge.
From ACM News
Billions and Billions of Planets
Look up at the night sky and you'll see stars, sure. But the sky is also filled with planets—billions and billions of them at least.
From ACM Opinion