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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CVS, Walgreens Look for Big Data Reward From Covid-19 Vaccinations
Pharmacy chains including CVS Health, Walmart, and Walgreens-Boots Alliance are collecting data from customers as they sign up for coronavirus vaccinations.
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SolarWinds Hack Pits Microsoft Against Dell, IBM Over How Companies Store Data
Major technology companies are debating the safest data storage measures for customers following the SolarWinds hack.
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How One State Managed to Actually Write Rules on Facial Recognition
Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.
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Your Data Is a Weapon That Can Help Change Corporate Behavior
A study by Northwestern University researchers highlighted how the public can influence companies they think are misusing their data or engaging in unethical behavior...
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The View from On High
Satellite imagery could address the limitations in traditional sources of data.
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The Power of Quantum Complexity
A theorem about computations that exploit quantum mechanics challenges longstanding ideas in mathematics and physics.
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Fact-Finding Mission
Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
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Can the Biases in Facial Recognition Be Fixed; Also, Should They?
Many facial recognition systems used by law enforcement are shot through with biases. Can anything be done to make them fair and trustworthy?
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Edmund M. Clarke (1945–2020)
Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr., a celebrated American academic who developed methods for mathematically proving the correctness of computer systems, died on December...
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In Nevada Desert, a Technology Firm Aims to Be a Government
Blockchains LLC's CEO Jeffrey Berns aims to create a futuristic "smart city" in Nevada where residents purchase goods and services with digital currency and record...
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Children Less Likely to Catch, Spread COVID-19, Modeling Shows
Simulations of COVID-19 transmission within households conducted by researchers at the University of Haifa found that persons 20 years and younger have less coronavirus...
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Lygon Blockchain Platform Mints Digital Bank Guarantee
A new blockchain platform named Lygon, formed by Australian banks ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and Westpac, IBM, and shopping center company Scentre...
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AI Can Use the Veins on Your Hand Like Fingerprints to Identify You
Researchers at the University of New South Wales trained a neural network to identify individuals using the unique pattern of veins on the back of their hands. ...
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Computer Can Determine Risk of Dying from COVID
Artificial intelligence developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen can predict a patient's likelihood of dying from COVID-19 with up to 90% accuracy...
From Communications of the ACM
Moore's Law: What Comes Next?
Moore's Law challenges point to changes in software.
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The State of Virtual Reality Hardware
Advances in VR hardware could finally take the technology mainstream.
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Technological Responses to COVID-19
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
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Fugaku Takes the Lead
Japan tops the Top500 supercomputer rankings, for the moment.
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Coalition of the Willing Takes Aim at COVID-19
Data science can only do so much in the face of a pandemic.
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