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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Surveillance-Based Manipulation: How Facebook or Google Could Tilt Elections
Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us.
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How Madden Ratings Are Made
Hunched over a keyboard, surrounded by computer monitors, Donny Moore, 37, controls the fate of the National Football League.
From ACM TechNews
Microsoft Leverages Tech to Preserve Languages at Risk of Disappearing
Microsoft wants to develop software that helps lost languages maintain their relevancy in the modern age.
From ACM TechNews
Techies Take on Port Authority's Data For Path Stations in 'hackathon'
Code of Jersey City recently held its second all-day Hackathon.
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S Government and Private Sector Developing 'precrime' System to Anticipate Cyber-Attacks
The USA's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is soliciting the involvement of the private and academic sectors in developing a new 'precrime'...
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How the Military Will Fight Isis on the Dark Web
The Dark Web is not so much a place as it is a method of achieving a level of anonymity online.
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Game-Playing Software Holds Lessons For Neuroscience
DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial-intelligence company, has revealed how it created a single computer algorithm that can learn how to play 49 different arcade...
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New Display Technology Lets Lcds Produce Princess Leia-Style Holograms
During a famous scene in Star Wars, Princess Leia has R2D2 play a holographic video message in midair in which she pleads for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the near...
From ACM TechNews
The Four Main Roadblocks Holding p Self-Driving Cars
There are four major obstacles facing developers of autonomous vehicles.
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Spy Research Agency Is Building Psychic Machines to Predict Hacks
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is working on a new contest aimed at creating a system to predict cyberthreats a network may face ahead...
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What Clever Robots Mean For Jobs
For a long time economists maintained that new technology would not result in a net loss of jobs, but some economists now think the situation is more nuanced than...
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Python at 25
Guido van Rossum speaks exclusively with CACM about the computer language Python, which he created a quarter-century ago.
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This Is Your Avatar Speaking
Last year, in a lab at the University of Barcelona, an anonymous woman was fitted with headphones, a microphone, a head-mounted virtual-reality display, a motion...
From ACM TechNews
Computer Scientists' App Measures Our Online Footprints
A new app can assess how well someone's online persona matches their true nature.
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Document Reveals Growth of Cyberwarfare Between the .S. and Iran
A newly disclosed National Security Agency document illustrates the striking acceleration of the use of cyberweapons by the United States and Iran against eachnuclear...
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Social Network Analysis Privacy Tackled
Pennsylvania State University researchers are researching ways to maintain privacy on social networks.
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Polymers Brighten Hopes For Visible Light Communication
Today nearly all computers, tablets, and cell phones have Wi-Fi capabilities, receiving and transmitting data over a range of radio frequencies.
From ACM Careers
Meet Kevin Ashton, Father of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things started in the mid-1990s, when a quirky young brand manager in the U.K. puzzled over why a shade of brown lipstick kept disappearing from...
From ACM TechNews
Poor Decision-Making Can Lead to Cybersecurity Breaches
Michigan State University professor Rick Walsh is studying the reasoning process behind the decisions people make that lead to computer security breaches.
From ACM TechNews