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 Careers
Virtual Games Bring Pinball to New Audiences
The flashing lights, cool sound effects and high-speed bouncing ball action have made pinball simulators a hugely popular genre of video game, not to mention big...
From ACM News
2013 Visualization Challenge
With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
From ACM TechNews
DARPA Thinks the Future of Surveillance Looks Like Siri
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Dan Kaufman says an innovation gap exists as the private sector advances in areas in which the government was once...
From ACM News
The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh
It's hard to pinpoint the moment Pittsburgh began its three-decade climb back from the dead, but Red Whittaker marks the comeback from the instant he heard the...
From ACM News
This Iphone-Size Device Can Hack A Car, Researchers Plan To Demonstrate
Auto makers have long downplayed the threat of hacker attacks on their cars and trucks, arguing that their vehicles' increasingly networked systems are protected...
From ACM TechNews
Google's Ray Kurzweil Envisions New Era of Search
In an interview, Google engineering chief Ray Kurzweil discussed a new type of search engine that he is developing, noting that search engines will have increasingly...
From ACM News
A Robotic Hand, This Time with Feeling
A Dutch man who lost his left hand in a fireworks accident nine years ago is now able to feel different kinds of pressure on three fingers of a prosthetic, robotic...
From ACM News
New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape.
From ACM News
Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense
As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...
From ACM News
Government Wants You to Broadcast Your Driving Data—Eventually
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that it's finally ready to consider regulations that...
From ACM TechNews
'honey Encryption' Will Bamboozle Attackers With Fake Secrets
Researchers have developed an approach to cryptography that makes it difficult for hackers to determine when they have correctly deciphered a password.
From ACM News
Scientists Reading Fewer Papers For First Time in 35 Years
A 35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to have halted.
From ACM Careers
Capturing Football's Snaps, Crackles, and Pops in Madden Nfl
The football players strutted down a 40-yard strip of synthetic turf, yelling, jumping and flailing their arms to whip the fans into a frenzy.
From ACM TechNews
Conversation App Helps Parents Boost Child's Language
Parents with children who struggle to develop their language skills could soon turn to an app designed to provide real-time feedback on parent-child conversations...
From ACM TechNews
Stanford Researchers Reveal More About How Our Brains Control Our Arms
Researchers have written a mathematical analysis of how neurons in the brain control planned and unplanned arm movements.
From ACM TechNews
Building a Better Battery
Some battery industry experts advise focusing on improving batteries by taking small steps, rather than trying to reinvent the battery itself.
From ACM Careers
Tech's Diversity Problem Is Apparent as Early as High School
In three states, not a single girl took the Advanced Placement exam in computer science last year. In eight states, no Hispanic students took it. And in 11 states...
From ACM News
'honey Encryption' Will Bamboozle Attackers with Fake Secrets
Ari Juels, an independent researcher who was previously chief scientist at computer security company RSA, thinks something important is missing from the cryptography...
From ACM News