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
Msu Programmers Develop Land Mine Avoidance Game
Michigan State University (MSU) instructors and students are fine-tuning a computer video game designed to help unsuspecting children avoid land mines and other...
From ACM TechNews
Asian Health Research Gets the Grid Treatment
Biomedical and health researchers discussed how they were using grid computing at the recent International Symposium on Grid Computing in Taipei, Taiwan.
From ACM News
Workshop to Focus on Preserving Digital Data
Experts on digital preservation will gather at a workshop at NIST in Gaithersburg, Md., later this month to develop a standards roadmap for long-term preservation...
From ACM News
Teens Win $630,000 in 2010 Intel Science Talent Search
Intel Science Talent Search 2010, a program of Society for Science & the Public, announced its top 10 winners in Washington, DC. Winners received $630,000 in awards...
From ACM News
Undercover Feds on Social Networking Sites Raise Questions
The next time someone tries to "friend" you on Facebook, it may turn out to be an undercover fed looking to examine your private messages and photos, or surveil...
From ACM News
Amputees Could Get a Helping Hand in the Virtual World
What is the best way to for someone to get used to their artificial limb? Put them in a virtual environment. So says Anthony Steed, a computer scientist at University...
From ACM CareerNews
It Adds 25,000-Plus Jobs in 2010
A new survey from the TechServe Alliance says IT employment grew by 14,000 jobs from January to February 2010, representing one of the strongest month-to-month...
From ACM News
Fingertip Bacteria: A Promising Forensic Tool
It's not just our genomes that make us unique. The genomic profile of bacteria that rub off our fingertips and onto objects we touch--a computer keyboard, for instance...
From ACM TechNews
Turning Smartphones Into Air Quality Monitors
Intel Labs has developed Common Sense, a portable device that collects and analyzes nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide, and ozone information, and enables users to...
From ACM TechNews
Berkeley Prof Helped Divvy Up Search to Many Servers
ACM has named University of California, Berkeley computer science professor Eric Brewer the recipient of the 2009 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award for his contribution...
From ACM TechNews
IBM Will Research Mobile Access For the Elderly, Illiterate
Researchers at IBM Research India, India's National Institute of Design, and the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology are investigating...
From ACM TechNews
Nsf Seeks New Approach to Helping Minority Students in Science
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) programs that assist specific racial and ethnic groups would be consolidated under a new proposal from the agency.
From ACM TechNews
Safety Issues Loom as Humanoid Invasion Approaches
As robot technology advances, and their use puts them in closer contact with humans, safety has become a top priority for some researchers.
From ACM News
Crdf Applauds Introduction of Science-Based Diplomacy Legislation
The U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF) applauds the introduction of legislation to enhance and expand the role of science in American foreign...
From ACM News
Effort to Widen .S. Internet Access Sets p Battle
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high...
From ACM News
Netflix Ditches Beat-Our-Recommendation-System Contest Due to Privacy Questions
Netflix's grassroots competition to best its recommendation algorithm was a big popularity booster for the company—but thanks to concerns over privacy (backed up...
From ACM TechNews
Race Matters
Black college instructors play a significant role in encouraging black science students to persist as science majors, according to a study by Cornell University...
From ACM News
Educating Elite Hackers
It started with Michael Coppola taking things apart at the age of five: the remote control, his mother's house lamps, the family's VCR. He was curious about how...
From ACM News
Emotional Computer Tutor Improves Girls' Math Scores
Students in Massachusetts will help fine-tune a computer-based, emotionally perceptive mathematics tutoring software developed by University of Massachusetts Amherst...
From ACM TechNews