Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2021
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2020
Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the...Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2018
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2015
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2015
4D printing combines the dimension of time with the hope of building objects with new capabilities.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2014
Gesture and gaze are among the newest additions to a growing family of computer interfaces.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2013
Hacker spaces are spreading around the world, though some government funding is raising questions.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2013
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2013
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2012
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2012
Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2012
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2011
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
Researchers are mining Twitter's vast flow of data to measure public sentiment, follow political activity, and detect earthquakes and flu outbreaks.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2011
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011