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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ACM Fellows Honored
Forty-one men and women are inducted as 2010 ACM Fellows.
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Following the Crowd
Crowdsourcing is based on a simple but powerful concept: Virtually anyone has the potential to plug in valuable information.
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Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer
Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.
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Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases
Power-saving processor algorithms have the potential to create significant energy and cost savings.
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Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled
This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication....
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Intel Agency: Without Videogames, We
American intelligence analysts are biased, and therefore make lousy decisions—even the spooky agencies admit that. The spy guys’ new hope for introducing some...
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New Meters Aim to Cure Parking Headaches
Soon San Francisco drivers won't need to cruise endlessly in search of an available parking spot.
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Sandia's Heroux Named Editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mike Heroux has been named editor-in-chief of the ACM journal Transactions on Mathematical Software.
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Domestic se of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement Likely to Prompt Privacy Debate
The suspect's house, just west of this city, sat on a hilltop at the end of a steep, exposed driveway. Agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety believed...
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Qualified Success Claimed Against Computer Worm
Cybersecurity experts combating the Conficker worm claimed qualified success but said millions of computers world-wide were still infected by the malicious software...
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The End of Credit Cards Is Coming
Credit cards may soon be as outdated as vinyl records. (Remember them?) And this is the year that the slow, steady march to oblivion begins.
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Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When?
This month, we were reminded how important it is that social media companies do what they can to protect the sensitive data they hold from the prying eyes ofreported...
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Survey Reveals Potential Innovation Gap in the U.s.
Young women in the U.S. represent an untapped group of potential inventors, according to the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index. The latest index shows that women...
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Where High Speed Internet Meets Smart Grid
Advanced internet technologies, energy management and the smart grid are coming together in an unlikely location: a mid-sized city in the South.
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'outrageous Ideas' at Cidr: Seeking to Stimulate Innovative Research Directions
The Computing Community Consortium is sponsoring "wacky idea" sessions aimed at identifying major new research opportunities. The program hopes to move beyond...
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Obama Honors Outstanding Science, Math, Engineering Mentors
President Obama has named 11 individuals and 4 organizations as 2011 recipients of the prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics,...
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Nasa Inventions Headed to Your Home
With only two shuttle flights left and the future of manned spaceflight in question, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is having a bit of an identity...
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Administration Says It Will Give Industry and Academia Heads Up on Cyberattacks
Universities and businesses will be supplied with government intelligence about malicious Internet activities by the Obama administration so that they can defend...
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