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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Will Super Wi-Fi Live p to Its Name?
It's likely that a few years from now, Americans' laptops, smart phones, and other wireless devices will be able to get online using "Super Wi-Fi," a new standard...
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Data Mining ncovers New Connections Between Health Problems
Researchers in Denmark are using data mining techniques to uncover new connections between health problems as seemingly unrelated as migraines and hair loss.
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Setting Boundaries For Internet Privacy
Watchful European privacy regulators are wielding increasing influence beyond the Continent’s borders.
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New Targets For the Control of Hiv Are Predicted sing a Novel Computational Analysis
Virginia Tech researchers have developed a computational approach that can predict several human proteins that the human immunodeficiency virus requires to replicate...
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'stingray' Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash
For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply "the Hacker." Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were...
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Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
Traction for the free-network movement is growing as activists, scholars, and entrepreneurs pursue efforts to repurpose existing online networks or create parallel...
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App Lets niversity Students Send Video Instantly to Police
The University of Maryland at College Park has launched a phased rollout of a smartphone app that can provide students, faculty, and staff with a direct and instantaneous...
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Technically, Science Will Be Less Lonely For Women When Girls Are Spurred Early
Girls are being sent a message at a young age that careers in math and science are marked by social isolation and will make them seem less attractive. However,...
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The War on Red-Light Cameras
Late last month, after a drawn-out battle dating back to November, Houston finally turned off its 70 red-light cameras. City residents voted them down in a referendum...
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Mining Data For Better Medicine
Researchers are utilizing digital medical records to conduct wide-ranging studies on the effects of certain drugs and how they relate to different populations.
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Schmidt Avoids a Gates-Like Disaster in D.c.
Eric Schmidt cut a confident figure today prior to his testimony before U.S. lawmakers, who later appeared determined to find out if Google abuses its supremacy...
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Success at 16
A high school student wins first prize from ACM for developing a faster keyboard layout.
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Living in a Digital World
Technology has created new opportunities to connect and interact. Yet, researchers are increasingly concerned that heavy technology usage is changing people's behavior...
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Privacy at Risk: Who's Watching You?
The notion of Big Brother has been around for decades, but technology has long lagged behind the Orwellian imagination. Not any more; in the era of smartphones...
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News Mining Might Have Predicted Arab Spring
You could have foreseen the Arab Spring if only you'd been paying enough attention to the news. That's the claim of a new study that shows how data mining of...
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A Future For Drones: Automated Killing
One afternoon last fall at Fort Benning, GA, two model-size planes took off, climbed to 800 and 1,000 feet, and began criss-crossing the military base in search...
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Caring, Empathetic Robots the Goal of Ou Professor's Research
University of Oklahoma professor Dean Hougen is studying whether robots can learn to care for one another, and possibly humans.
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Kinect Assists At-Risk Older Adults
Kinect and other computer technology, like Doppler radar, are being used to detect the early onset of illness and the risk of falling in older adults.
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The America Invents Act and the Individual Inventor
Much has been said about how the newly passed patent reform legislation, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, benefits large corporations. While that argument...
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