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
A Turning Point For Genetic Testing
In a prelude to overhauling its regulatory oversight of genetic diagnostic testing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will convene a public meeting next week...
From ACM News
Crunching Cancer With Numbers
When Danny Hillis spent a day watching a top surgeon perform keyhole cancer surgery, he was left both exhilarated and depressed. The clinical precision with which...
From ACM News
Computer Technology Helps Doctors Target Underserved Patients
Multimedia talking touchscreens, housed in computer kiosks at clinics and hospitals, are helping researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine...
From ACM News
2010 R&D 100 Awards Winners Announced
The editors of R&D Magazine have announced the winners of the 48th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced...
From ACM News
pdated Computer Security Publication Focuses on Security Assessment Plans
NIST has published an updated set of guidelines for developing security assessment plans and associated security control assessment procedures that are consistent...
From ACM News
Repeat of S. Korea, .s. Cyberattacks Does No Damage
Hundreds of computers that helped cause a wave of outages on U.S. and South Korean government websites last July launched new attacks on the same sites, but no...
From ACM News
Forget India, Outsource to Arkansas
As the U.S. unemployment rate hovers near 10 percent, some companies are starting to eye job-hungry areas of the country as prime candidates for the kind of outsourced...
From ACM News
IBM Research Grant Awarded For Database Enhancement Application Development
The University of Haifa's Ami and Teddy Sagy Center for the Study of the Internet has been awarded IBM's $40,000 Open Collaborative Research grant for their proposal...
From ACM News
Taiwanese Companies Join on Cloud Computing For Asia
Taiwan's biggest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom, has signed an agreement with Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop maker, to jointly...
From ACM TechNews
Roll-p Computers and Their Kin
Digital reading technology has evolved from the original Amazon Kindle, which cost $400 and displayed four shades of gray, to devices that are much less expensive...
From ACM News
Sleepserver Software Lets Enterprise Pcs Work While They Sleep
Personal computers in enterprise environments save energy and money by "sleep-working," thanks to new software called SleepServer created by computer scientists...
From ACM News
Pioneering Seac Computer Remembered on 60th Anniversary
Sixty years ago this week, the National Bureau of Standards dedicated the first programmable computer in U.S. history.
From Communications of the ACM
Visions of the Future
ACM joined forces with the British Computer Society to deliver its first academic research conference in Europe.
From Communications of the ACM
Eric Brewer: Change Agent
Eric Brewer's latest project involves designing and deploying low-cost wireless infrastructure in developing regions.
From Communications of the ACM
Mainstreaming Augmented Reality
Advancements in computer vision, object recognition, and related technologies are leading to new levels of sophistication in augmented-reality applications and...
From Communications of the ACM
Censored!
Countries use Internet censorship to dominate the political dialogue, but also to create favorable conditions for government-controlled businesses.
From Communications of the ACM
Sharing Computational Perspectives
Computer scientists are now making intellectual contributions to a wide range of other disciplines, including evolutionary theory, physics, and economics.
From ACM News
Grants Support Design of ltra-Efficient 'green' Data Center
Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network and the Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership have awarded grants for the design of an ultra-efficient...
From ACM News
Water Main Break Floods Dallas Data Center
IT systems in Dallas County were offline for more than three days last week after a water main break flooded the basement of the Dallas County Records Building...
From ACM News