Communications of the ACM
Is MFA Needed to Improve Security?
Considering the outlook for multi-factor authentication applications.
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Smartphone Science
A new generation of portable scientific instruments is taking shape, thanks to mobile processors and innovative data-gathering techniques.
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Mapping the Internet of Things
Researchers are discovering surprising new risks across the fast-growing IoT.
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Security Experts Weigh in on Apple vs. the Fbi, Public Policy and the Law at Nyu Event
Most participants agreed the growing sophistication of security threats demands a shift from preventing attacks to detecting them as quickly as possible.
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Algorithmic Authors
Natural Language Generation software begins delivering on the promise of automated prose.
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Big Data Meets Big Science
Next-generation scientific instruments are forcing researchers to question the limits of massively parallel computing.
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Ready, Aim . . . Puff?
New 3D haptic technologies let users touch and feel virtual objects.
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Robots Like Us
Thanks to new research initiatives, autonomous humanoid robots are inching closer to reality.
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Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.
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The Touchy Subject of Haptics
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
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Data Streaming 2.0
In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.
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Context-Aware Smartphones
Future generations of smartphones will be context aware, tracking your behavior, providing information about the immediate environment, and anticipating your intentions...
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