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Welcome the Plants That Move on their Own
Exploring the potential of plant-robot hybrids that can produce architectural artifacts and living spaces.
Yet patent attorneys fear the darker consequences of artificial intelligence.
Electroceuticals use electricity, rather than chemicals, to treat the body's ills.
Google Translate Does Not Understand the Content of the Texts
How well do translation programs translate?
Is the Trolley Problem Useful for Studying Autonomous Vehicles?
Does the trolley problem offer any useful insights for autonomous vehicles, in terms of design of or public policy around these systems? Here are several reasons why it is not useful, and what are some more useful values-based questions to ask.
The Furby singularity promises eternal conversation with the untimely departed.
Fitness Monitors, Smartwatches are Not Medical Devices
Manufacturers may blur the distinctions, but they're important.
A self-driving laboratory is a kind of robot scientist that uses sensors to become aware of its environment and artificial intelligence to autonomously make decisions.
An Emerging Threat, Hiding in Plain Sight
Steganography hides information, sometimes right before your eyes.
Smart watches and other wearables are evolving into medical devices that will drive significant changes in healthcare.
The Problem with SMS Two-Factor Authentication
SMS two-factor authentication has some security issues that have prompted companies to get creative.
Will We All Be Wearing Wearables?
If wearable computing products are really needed, what are the biggest practical and research challenges to mainstream adoption?
Web Science in Europe: Beyond Boundaries
There is increasing concern in Europe—and beyond—that the Web has become a vehicle of disintegration, polarization, and exploitation. Web Science seeks to investigate, analyze, and intervene in the Web from a sociotechnical perspective.
Ethics discussions of artificial intelligence reveal a fallacy of omission.
Painting On Perovskites at Room Temperature
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors are suited to many electro-optical applications.
Why is privacy so hard? Why is it, after so much negative press about it, are we still being constantly tracked on the web and on our smartphones? Why is it, after so many years of bad incidents and high profile data breaches, has the problem of privacy not yet been solved? I sketch out 11 reasons why we are failing at privacy.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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