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.
From ACM Opinion
Microsoft's Research Boss Celebrates Legacy of Alan Turing
What does Alan Turing mean to Microsoft and the rest of the modern tech world? Rick Rashid can tell you.
From ACM News
Minister: Iran Ready to Repel Enemies' Cyber Attacks
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi underscored on Thursday that the country is completely ready for defending its sensitive facilities against enemies'...
From Communications of the ACM
Degrees of Separation
Researchers now have the capability to look at the small-world problem from both the traditional algorithmic approach and the new topological approach.
From Communications of the ACM
Patently Inadequate
The biggest change to U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years brings many changes, but fails to solve the software industry's most vexing problems.
From Communications of the ACM
Lost and Found
Researchers discover computer pioneer Konrad Zuse's long-forgotten Z9, the world's first program-controlled binary relay calculator using floating-point arithmetic...
From ACM News
.S., Israel Developed Flame Computer Virus to Slow Iranian Nuclear Efforts, Officials Say
The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed...
From ACM TechNews
How the White House Is Aiming the X Prize Model at Big Problems
The U.S. government recently held Collaborative Innovation: Public Sector Prizes, a one-day forum in which public-sector employees, as well as representatives from...
From ACM News
War With Friends: Pentagon Eyes a Drone App Store
The U.S. military has dozens of different types of drones in its arsenal. Each one has its own unique controller. And each of those various controllers flies a...
From ACM News
You For Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome
It knows who you are. It knows where you live. It knows what you do.
From ACM News
Google Reports 'alarming' Rise in Government Censorship Requests
Western governments, including the United States, appear to be stepping up efforts to censor Internet search results and YouTube videos, according to a "transparency...
From ACM Opinion
What Have We Learned: Flame Malware
When the news about the Flame malware first broke several weeks ago, people from all parts of the security community, political world and elsewhere quickly began...
From ACM Opinion
Inside Google's Plan to Build a Catalog of Every Single Thing, Ever
The ugly truth is that computers don't know anything. They have no common sense.
From ACM News
Verifying Ages Online Is a Daunting Task, Even For Experts
Just how hard can it be to verify the age of a person online?
From ACM Careers
New Grad Looking For a Job? Pentagon Contractors Post Openings For Black-Hat Hackers
Mikko Hypponen enjoys his position as the chief research officer at the Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure. He has no intention of leaving. But lately, he's...
From ACM Careers
.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes
The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and...
From ACM News
What Facebook Knows
If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world...
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U.s. Cities Embrace Software To Automatically Detect 'suspicious' Behavior
San Francisco is set to become the latest U.S. city to invest in software, created by Texas-based BRS Labs, that monitors and memorizes movements as they are captured...
From ACM TechNews
Robotic Assistants May Adapt to Humans in the Factory
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that enables a robot to quickly learn an individual's preference for a certain task and adapt accordingly to help complete...
From ACM News