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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Bitcoin Collides With Government Concerns
If Bitcoin is a bubble, as its critics contend, it is showing signs of deflation.
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Thinking in Silicon
Picture a person reading these words on a laptop in a coffee shop.
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.
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Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...
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President Obama Talks About Teaching Everyone to Code. This Professor Does It.
On Monday, President Obama kicked off computer science education week, encouraging every young person to acquire computer programming skills, even if they have...
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For Steve Ballmer, a Lasting Touch on Microsoft
On the eve of his exit as chief executive officer of Microsoft, after more than a decade on the job, Steve Ballmer is more than ever a CEO whose image does not...
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Inside the Effort to Kill a Web Fraud 'botnet'
For months, investigators at Microsoft Corp. hunkered down in front of their computer monitors, patiently stalking the shadowy figures behind what the company says...
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Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem
At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network.
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The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead
Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true.
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Old School vs. New School As Academic Publishers Brawl Over Web
The competition for prominence in academic publishing heated up this week as a traditional company, Elsevier, tangled with a Digital Era rival, Academia.edu.
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Moore's Law Isn't Making Chips Cheaper Anymore
At a wine bar in San Francisco on Wednesday, Broadcom Chairman and CTO Henry Samueli delivered some sobering news: Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore...
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Enhancing the Efficiency of Complex Computations
The science and industry sectors are showing considerable interest in the Karlsruhe High Quality Partitioner.
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Shazam! How the Music Industry Hears What You (will) Love
At some point in 2014, your friends are totally going to be into this Dutch DJ named Martin Garrix.
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Google Puts Money on Robots, sing the Man Behind Android
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.
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Inside a Twitter Robot Factory
One day last month, Jim Vidmar bought 1,000 fake Twitter accounts for $58 from an online vendor in Pakistan.
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2014 Bower Award Goes To… Validation
Edmund Clarke will receive the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.
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Diagnosis For Healthcare.gov: nrealistic Technology Expectations
The fiasco with the $600 million federal health insurance website wasn't all bureaucratic.
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How Do Game Companies Share Massive Files?
Electronic Arts' multi-player shooter "Battlefield 4" exploded onto the computer games scene earlier this month, giving players a realistic taste of military combat...
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Newegg Trial: Crypto Legend Takes the Stand, Goes For Knockout Patent Punch
Newegg's courtroom face-off with patent-licensing giant TQP Development is nearing its end.
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