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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Criminologist Builds Computer Model for More Efficient Police Patrols
Analysis by University of Texas at Dallas assistant professor of criminology Andrew Wheeler yielded a computer model to guide the Carrollton, TX, police department...
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Fending Off Digital Sabotage
Sabotage-resistant industrial machinery combats Stuxnet-like attacks.
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U.S. Gives 3 States Grants for Self-Driving Car Research
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia its first three Automated Driving Systems Demonstration Grants to research and develop...
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AI Helps Shrink Amazon Dams' Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A model developed by a Cornell University-led research team uses artificial intelligence to find the most promising configurations of dam sites to reduce greenhouse...
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ACM Forms Global Technology Policy Council
ACM has established a new Technology Policy Council to coordinate its policy initiatives worldwide.
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These States Benefit Most From the Software Industry
A report by the Software.org:BSA Foundation found that the U.S. software industry is growing twice as fast as the nation's economy.
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World Catching Up With China on Surveillance Tech
China is the global leader in surveillance technologies, although other countries are catching up, according to a study by the Carnegie Endowment for International...
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Introducing a Virtual Planet Simulator for Modeling Distant Worlds Across Time
The University of Washington's Rory Barnes has developed software for modeling planetary evolution over time.
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Aristotle Award Presentation TECHCON 2019
The Aristotle Award was initiated in 1995 to recognize professors who best contribute to the development of the industry's most valuable resource, its human resource...
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Moving the Encryption Policy Conversation Forward
Strong data encryption thwarts criminals and preserves privacy. At the same time, it complicates law enforcement investigations. A Carnegie working group looks...
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Mozilla, Creative Commons Want to Reimagine the Internet Without Ads, and They Have $100M to Do it
The Grant for the Web program will give roughly $20 million per year for five years to content sites, open source infrastructure developers, and others.
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Google Unveils DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Plan, Mozilla's Faces Criticism
DNS-over-HTTPS allows DNS resolution to be conducted over encrypted HTTPS connections rather than through the normal plain text DNS lookups.
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Report Reveals Growing Threat of Cyberattacks to Food Safety
Cyberattacks pose a rising threat to food production and safety, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota's Food Protection and Defense Institute...
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'Flying Fish' Robot Can Propel Itself Out of Water, Glide Through the Air
A new bio-inspired robot uses water from the environment to create a gas and launch itself from the water's surface.
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Google's Smart-City Plans 'Tech for Tech's Sake'
An independent panel criticized a smart-city development planned by Google's Sidewalk Labs unit on Toronto's waterfront, citing innovations as being more about...
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Deep Learning at Scale for Construction of Galaxy Catalogs
Researchers combined artificial intelligence with high-performance computing to expedite analysis of massive datasets generated by cosmological surveys.
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Theoretical Computer Scientist Receives Waterman Award
Mark Braverman is the third theoretical scientist in a decade to be honored with the Waterman Award.
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How Hackers Could Break Into the Smart City
The more connected a smart city is, the greater its vulnerability to cyberattack.
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AI Learns to Defy Laws of Physics to Win at Hide-and-Seek
Scientists at the OpenAI artificial intelligence laboratory developed bots that trained themselves to cooperate by playing hide-and-seek.
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