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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Football Coaches Are Turning to AI For Help Calling Plays
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.
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Scientists Capture Crispr's Gene-Cutting in Action
For all the furious hype around the gene-editing tool Crispr/Cas9, no one has ever really seen it in action. Like really seen it.
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Microsoft Neural Net Shows Deep Learning Can Get Way Deeper
A Microsoft researcher team won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge in December with a new approach to deep learning.
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The Nfl Is Finally Tapping Into the Power of Data
The NFL may be the most popular and profitable major sport in America, but until recently, it's lagged behind other leagues in sophisticated use of data analysis...
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An Easy Way For Hackers to Remotely Burn Industrial Motors
Hacks that cause physical destruction are so rare they can be counted on one hand.
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Drone Swarms Will Change the Face of Modern Warfare
Swarms of inexpensive, expendable U.S. Navy robots will leave the laboratory this summer to be tested in the field.
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MIT Researchers Want to Teach Robots How to Wash Dishes
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...
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Science Can Tell If North Korea's Test Was Really an H-Bomb
It was the whomp felt 'round the world.
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How the Internet of Things Got Hacked
There was once a time when people distinguished between cyberspace, the digital world of computers and hackers, and the flesh-and-blood reality known as meatspace...
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Nobody Knew How Big a Deal the Cloud Would Be—they Do Now
Ten years ago, Amazon unleashed a technology that we now call, for better or for worse, cloud computing.
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The Secret History of World War Ii-Era Drones
Drones are the hallmark of tech-y modern warfare, but weapons piloted from afar have been around for more than a century.
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For Google, Quantum Computing Is Like Learning to Fly
At a NASA lab in Silicon Valley, Google is testing a quantum computer—a machine based on the seemingly magical principles of quantum mechanics, the physics of things...
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Hacker Lexicon: Malvertising, the Hack That Infects Computers Without a Click
Malvertising is when hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website, and, as the name suggests, upload malicious advertisements designed to hack site visitor’s computers...
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Crispr Gene-Editing Gets Rules. Well, Guidelines, Really
If you're hoping to engineer perfect babies, you're going to have to wait.
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Teaching AI to Play Atari Will Help Robots Make Sense of Our World
Google is teaching machines to play Atari games like Space Invaders, Video Pinball, andBreakout. And they're getting pretty good.
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Medical Devices That Are Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Hacks
When you think about the Internet of Things, you probably think of smart refrigerators and smart electric meters, not smart pacemakers, insulin pumps, and x-ray...
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Apple's Swift Ios Programming Language Could Soon Be in Data Centers
Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone, and it was a welcomed thing.
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Isis' Opsec Manual Reveals How It Handles Cybersecurity
In the wake of the Paris attacks, US government officials have been vocal in their condemnation of encryption, suggesting that US companies like Apple and Google...
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