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 TechNews
Mystery of the Missing Women in Science
Although test scores prove that girls have science and math aptitude equal to that of boys, many girls choose not to pursue these fields.
From ACM News
Robots: Is the Uncanny Valley Real?
Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...
From ACM TechNews
Privacy App Pinpoints Your Exact Location Using Social Media
Many people are unaware that metadata accompanying social media posts can be used to "cybercase" their homes.
From ACM TechNews
Biodiversity App Logs Insects By Their Telltale Call
Cicada Hunt is a smartphone app designed to listen for the call of the endangered New Forest cicada; it also can be trained to detect other animals by their calls...
From ACM TechNews
Windows 8 Picture Passwords Easily Cracked
Security researchers have found taht Microsoft Windows 8's picture gesture authentication system is not difficult to crack.
From ACM TechNews
Mapping the Twitterverse
Researchers are studying how much public geospatial data is generated by Twitter users and how that information could be used by third parties.
From ACM Opinion
Tech Pioneer Vint Cerf on the Age of Context and Why You Can't Be a Citizen of the Internet
Few people have as much claim as Vint Cerf to the title "Father of the Internet," but as the technologies he helped develop in the 1970s and 1980s become increasingly...
From ACM News
Your Phone Is Blabbing Your Location to Anyone Who Will Listen
Everywhere you go, your phone is sending out signals that can be assembled to form a picture of your movements.
From ACM News
The Digital Divide Continues
There is still a significant number of people in the United States who do not own a computer or have home Internet access.
From ACM TechNews
Hack Attacks, Explained
Harvard University professor Jonathan L. Zittrain says recent cyberattacks on media outlets offer lessons on how institutions can guard against future incidents...
From ACM TechNews
3-D Mapping in Real Time, Without the Drift
A new mapping algorithm that creates real-time, detailed three-dimensional maps of indoor and outdoor environments.
From ACM News
Drug Agents se Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.s.a.'s
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...
From ACM News
How 'cell Tower Dumps' Caught the High Country Bandit—and Why It Matters
On February 18, 2010, the FBI field office in Denver issued a "wanted" notice for two men known as "the High Country Bandits"—a rather grandiose name for a pair...
From ACM TechNews
Strands Project Develops Robot Security Guards
The European Union's Seventh Framework Program is funding the Strands project, which is developing software for robot brains that can be used as security guards...
From ACM TechNews
.s. Appetite For Internet ser Data Not nique
Despite recent concerns about information collection by the United States, law enforcement agencies in Europe and other nations appear to gather equal or greater...
From ACM News
Inside the Response to the New York Times Attack
Late Tuesday morning, one of the engineers in CloudFlare's San Francisco office saw a message on Twitter saying that the New York Times Web site was down. Minutes...
From ACM TechNews
Scientist Creates Solution For Looming Broadband Shortage
A new method to solve the approaching broadcast spectrum deficit examines how cell networks could optimize spectrum use.
From ACM TechNews
'zero Knowledge' May Answer Computer Security Question
A new protocol for the creation of a "zero-knowledge proof" involves answering questions that depend on having a secret bit of knowledge.
From ACM News
How Syrian Hackers Found the New York Times's Australian Weak Spot
A hacking attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army may have targeted the New York Timesand other U.S. media companies, but the weak link was Melbourne IT (...
From ACM TechNews