Communications of the ACM
Will AI Replace Computer Programmers?
Advances in artificial intelligence tools that can code could improve productivity, but portend disruption.
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Researchers Protect Solar Technologies from Cyberattack
University of Georgia researchers unveiled a sensor system that watches power electronic converters at solar energy farms for signs of cyberattack in real time....
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Behold, a Password Phishing Site that Can Trick Even Savvy Users
A proof-of-concept "browser in the browser" exploit could phish passwords using a malicious site that does not contain suspicious domains or substitute letters....
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A Robot Small Enough to Explore the Lungs
A new magnetic tentacle robot is tiny enough to take tissue samples from the lung's smallest bronchial vessels, or to deliver cancer therapy.
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Starfall: Finding a Meteorite with Drones and AI
Neural network used to spot a space rock in the Australian outback.
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Do EV Charging Stations Open the Power Grid to Attack?
Electric vehicle Charging Station Management Systems need greater focus on security.
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Corrupted Open Source Software Enters the Russian Battlefield
A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus....
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Robotized Insects May Search Collapsed Buildings for Survivors
Researchers have developed robotized insects that could be used to search for survivors in collapsed buildings.
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A Tool for Predicting the Future
A group of researchers has developed a system that allows nonexperts to generate predictions in just a few seconds.
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Study Finds Parents' Social Media Use Associated with Parenting Style
Researchers found a link between parents’ social media use and their parenting styles.
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Making Quantum Circuits More Robust
A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a framework to make quantum circuits more resilient to noise.
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Robot Truckers Could Replace 500K U.S. Jobs
Autonomous driving engineers are developing driverless trucks for long-haul freight that runs along simple interstate routes.
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The March of the Penguins Has a New Star: An Autonomous Robot
Researchers built a ground vehicle that may be operated in autonomous or remote-controlled modes to study hundreds of Emperor penguins in Antarctica.
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How Native Americans Try to Debug AI's Biases
At the recent American Indian Science and Engineering Society, students in a workshop created metadata to train an algorithm to understand an image's cultural significance...
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Dual Use of AI-powered Drug Discovery
An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons...
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Battery-free Devices Float on the Wind like Dandelion Seeds
University of Washington researchers have developed a tiny battery-free device that can be blown by wind currents, like dandelion seeds.
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Could the Internet be Driven by Climate-friendly 'Natural Intelligence'?
The Solar Protocol project aims to highlight the environmental impact of the Internet, the devices and systems that use it, and the servers that support it.
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See 'Spot' Save: Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department
Plans to use two new robot dogs only in precarious search and rescue missions may help avoid the controversy that met the Police Department's robots last year. ...
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WARNING: Objects in Driverless Car Sensors May Be Closer Than They Appear
Researchers have identified an attack strategy that can trick industry-standard autonomous vehicle sensors into believing nearby objects are closer or further than...
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Here Come the Artificial Intelligence Nutritionists
Companies are experimenting with personalized diet apps, saying the future of healthy eating is A.I.
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