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
The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
Pretend for a moment that you are Google’s search engine. Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first result?
From ACM News
Web Words That Lure the Readers
The Huffington Post has hired veteran journalists to beef up its news coverage. But a significant chunk of its readers come instead for articles like one published...
From ACM News
Extracting Business Ideas From It Logs
Many companies' IT infrastructure is automatically gathering a comprehensive picture of their whole business, in the form of everything from Web server and phone...
From ACM News
Researchers Inventory a World of Information
Data is the common currency that unites all fields of science.
From ACM Opinion
Susan Wojcicki: The Most Important Googler You've Never Heard Of
Yes, Google started in Susan Wojcicki's rented garage. But in her mind, that might be the single least important fact about her long and deep relationship with...
From ACM News
Nypd Planning to Use Facial-Recognition Technology to Match Mug Shots to Suspect Videos
The NYPD is about to start using digital technology to match video images of people at crime scenes to mug shots on file, police sources said.
From Communications of the ACM
ACM Launches New Digital Library
More than 50 years of computing literature is augmented, streamlined, and joined to powerful new tools for retrieval and analysis.
From Communications of the ACM
Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'
From ACM News
Google's Artificial Intelligence Translates Poetry
Researchers at Google are tackling what they call one of the most difficult challenges in artificial intelligence.
From ACM News
Google's Marissa Mayer
Who says you have to be a guy to be a geek? This Google senior executive is teaching a new generation that femininity and technology are a winning formula.
From ACM TechNews
Finding the Needle in the Haystack, Instantly
Researchers from Northeastern University, the University of Virginia, and Advanced Micro Devices have developed supercomputing hardware and software technology...
From Communications of the ACM
India's Elephantine Effort
An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.
From Communications of the ACM
The Touchy Subject of Haptics
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
From ACM News
Virtual Spheres Speed Up Skimming Through Mobile Video
With more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube each minute, finding the right video without downloading it first is difficult. And video searching on mobile...
From ACM News
Word-Wide Web Launches
New Google database puts centuries of cultural trends in reach of linguists.
From ACM News
Rivals Say Google Plays Favorites
Search giant displays its own health, shopping, local content ahead of links to competing sites.
From ACM News
New Application Allows Scientists Easy Access to Government Data
Computer scientists within the Tetherless World Research Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed an application that provides scientists...
From ACM News
How Can Online Advertising Companies Be Kept from Tracking Web Surfers?
The FTC is calling for "do not track" software, but one privacy and security expert said such programming would have to be incorporated into a browser for it...
From ACM News