Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Helping Companies Prioritize Their Cybersecurity Investments
A platform developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can quantify security risks for companies without requiring them to disclose sensitive...
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Reducing the Carbon Footprint of AI
Researchers have developed an automated artificial intelligence system for training and running certain types of neural networks, which has a small carbon footprint...
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System Trains Driverless Cars in Simulation Before They Hit the Road
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have created a simulation system to train driverless cars prior to their deployment on actual streets.
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Better Autonomous 'Reasoning' at Tricky Intersections
A new model can help autonomous vehicles determine when it is safe to proceed into traffic at intersections with obstructed views.
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Helping Autonomous Vehicles See Around Corners
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created a system that perceives tiny fluctuations in ground shadows to ascertain whether an unseen object is...
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Improving Security as AI Moves to Smartphones
Researchers suggest the vulnerability of compressed, or quantized, artificial intelligence models to adversarial attack could be remedied by adding a mathematical...
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Want to Squelch Fake News? Let Readers Take Charge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers demonstrated that crowdsourced judgments about the quality of news sources can marginalize online misinformation...
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Reducing False Positives in Credit Card Fraud Detection
A new machine learning technique can drastically reduce false positives in fraud-detecting technology that incorrectly flag credit card sales as suspicious.
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Taking Machine Thinking Out of the Black Box
Researchers are using two main approaches to replacing black-box machine learning models with prediction methods that are more transparent.
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Private Browsing Gets More Private
The new Veil system is designed to improve private browsing by guaranteeing that any data the browser loads into memory remains encrypted until it is displayed...
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Why Do Some Neighborhoods Improve?
Researchers have used a computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five U.S. cities.
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sing Bitcoin to Prevent Identify Theft
A new system uses bitcoin's security mechanisms to foil online identify thieves.
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Smart Automation
Researchers at the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance for Research and Technology have spent the last several years developing autonomous...
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Tackling Society's Big Problems With Systems Theory
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society doctoral program is underway.
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Driverless-Vehicle Options Now Include Scooters
Researchers have developed an autonomous mobility scooter using the same sensor configuration and software used in previous trials of autonomous cars and golf carts...
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Students' Web App Seeks to Simplify, Modernize Voter Registration
Votemate is a new Web application that could make it easier for people to confirm they are registered to vote.
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
New technology for protecting anonymity online provides stronger security guarantees but uses bandwidth much more efficiently than previous anonymity networks.
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We Know Where You Live
Researchers have demonstrated that snoopers armed with little sophisticated technology can expose the home and workplace addresses of Twitter users.
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Self-Driving Cars, Meet Rubber Duckies
A course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory aimed to create a fleet of duckie-adorned self-driving...
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Untraceable Communication—guaranteed
Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people’s Web-browsing habits from prying eyes.12