Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Science Author Clive Thompson Does Not Think Tech Is Ruining Your Mind
Technology writer Clive Thompson believes technology is improving human intelligence.
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Top 5 Jobs in Silicon Valley
If there's anything observers can say with certainty, it's that Silicon Valley remains an anomalous industry.
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Website Maps 1.2 Billion Facebook Faces
Facebook has so many users—more than a billion, or roughly the population of India—that squeezing them all into one Web page seems almost impossible.
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Your Digital Trail, And How It Can Be sed Against You
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available...
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Google Think Tank Helps Build Virtual Museum For World Constitutions
The Comparative Constitutions Project has built a new website that offers a collection of constitutions from nations around the world.
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Tiny Sensor Used in Smartphones Could Create Urban Seismic Network
A tiny chip used in smartphones to adjust the orientation of the screen can detect moderate to strong earthquakes when located near the epicenter.
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Nsa Gathers Data on Social Connections of .s. Citizens
The U.S. National Security Agency in 2010 started creating sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social networks.
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Back to the Future of Computer Science
The first Heidelberg Laureate Forum brought together the brightest minds of the past, the present, and the future in math and computer science.
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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.
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k to Create New Cyber Defence Force
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence will recruit reservists as computer experts to work alongside regular forces in its new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit.
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Smart Cities: Citizens Come to Their Sensors
Santander, Spain, has become a model for high-tech smart cities worldwide.
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Watch Out, Wall Street: Report Says Tech Is Now Nyc's Second-Largest Sector
New York City's economy has traditionally been dominated by finance, real estate, and media.
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Nsa Chief Defends Collecting Americans' Data
The head of the National Security Agency delivered a vigorous defense Wednesday of his agency's collection of Americans' phone records for counterterrorism purposes...
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Scientists se Math--and Computer War Games--to Show How Society Evolved
Researchers have developed mathematical formulas and computer simulations to discover how complex societies evolved.
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Harvard Plans to Boldly Go With 'spocs'
Harvard University is moving beyond massive open online courses to small private online courses.
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Supercomputing Enables Climate Time Machine
Climate models are improving with each generation of supercomputer, enabling more precise predictions of extreme weather events.
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Science Benefits From Diverse Landing Area of Nasa Mars Rover
NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and...
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Why Space Telescope Mirror Is Most Complex Ever Built
"You will not be touching anything."
From Communications of the ACM
The Alan Turing Year Leaves a Rich Legacy
A year-long celebration of the life and work of a man whom many call the founding father of computer science.
From ACM TechNews