Communications of the ACM
Capturing What is Said
Artificial intelligence is boosting the capabilities of automatic speech recognition.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM News
NSA Infiltrates Links to Yahoo, Google Data Centers Worldwide, Snowden Documents Say
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents...
From ACM News
Who Tracks the Trackers that Track You Online? You Can, with Lightbeam.
When your browser landed on this article, it didn't just talk to the friendly servers at washingtonpost.com.
From ACM Opinion
Here's Why the Feds Didn't Have More Skilled Programmers For Healthcare.gov
HealthCare.gov, the Web site at the center of President Obama's federal health insurance exchange, has been plagued with problems since it opened for business Oct...
From ACM TechNews
NSA Collects Millions of Email Address Books Globally
The U.S. National Security Agency harvests hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts worldwide.
From ACM News
Here's Everything You Should Know About Nsa Address Book Spying in One Faq
A new report from The Washington Post, based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveals that the National Security Agency is collecting hundreds...
From ACM Opinion
Nsa Chief Defends Collecting Americans' Data
The head of the National Security Agency delivered a vigorous defense Wednesday of his agency's collection of Americans' phone records for counterterrorism purposes...
From ACM TechNews
Alan Turing’s Story Could Be Rebooted By Calls to Pardon Late Computer Legend
More than 50 years after the death of computing pioneer Alan Turing, a movement is cresting to reboot the record of the British mathematician's life.
From ACM News
The Nsa Sponsors 'cyber Operations' Training at niversities. Here's What Students Learn.
Last week, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh became one of the latest—and most prestigious—schools to partner with the National Security Agency on a program...
From ACM Careers
Here's How One Hacker Is Waging War on the Syrian Government
As President Obama weighed U.S. air strikes in Syria this week, a lone American hacker was waging his own attack on the Syrian government.
From ACM News
The New York Times Web Site Was Taken Down By Dns Hijacking. Here's What That Means.
Just weeks after The Washington Post had our own run-in with the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the New York Times is down, and the SEA is claiming responsibility...
From ACM TechNews
Nsa Gathered Thousands of Americans' Emails Before Court Ordered It to Revise its Tactics
The U.S. National Security Agency illegally collected up to 56,000 "wholly domestic" communications each year from 2008 to 2011.
From ACM Opinion
Google Maps Trained S to Follow Directions. Now Its Former Developer Wants S to Explore.
It's not evident from the way his hair flops casually down and across, nor from his equally relaxed demeanor, but John Hanke is one of Google's most important idea...
From ACM Careers
Linkedin Connects Big Data, Human Resources
Every second, more than two more people join LinkedIn's network of 238 million members.
From ACM News
Nsa Growth Fueled By Need to Target Terrorists
Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a...
From ACM News
Court Says Skipping Ads Doesn't Violate Copyright. That's a Big Deal.
In 1984, the Supreme Court rejected Hollywood's argument that the record button on the Betamax VCR made its manufacturer, Sony, liable for copyright infringement...
From ACM News
For Nsa Chief, Terrorist Threat Drives Passion to 'collect It All,' Observers Say
In late 2005, as Iraqi roadside bombings were nearing an all-time peak, the National Security Agency's newly appointed chief began pitching a radical plan for halting...
From ACM News
Nsa Surveillance Program Extended By Court, Intelligence Officials Say
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency's authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of millions of American cellphone customers...
From ACM TechNews
This Accused Hacker Is a Jerk. Here’s Why He Shouldn’t Be a Felon.
Dozens of computer security experts have filed a brief in support of Andrew Auernheimer's attempt to overturn his conviction on computer-hacking charges.
From ACM Opinion
The Coming Political Battle Over Bitcoin
Given that Bitcoin first broke into mainstream attention when Gawker explained how to use it to buy drugs, perhaps the surprise is that it took federal regulators...
From ACM News