Communications of the ACM
Spies in Our Pockets
Electronic eavesdropping is becoming ever more nefarious in the age of smartphones and digital devices.
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Charles W. Bachman: 1924-2017
An engineer best known for his work in database management systems, and in techniques of layered architecture that include Bachman diagrams.
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A Hunt for Ways to Combat Online Radicalization
Law enforcement officials, technology companies and lawmakers have long tried to limit what they call the "radicalization" of young people over the internet.
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Mysteries of Turbulence Unravelled
"When I meet God, I'm going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he'll have an answer for the first."
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Watch Hackers Hijack Three Robots for Spying and Espionage
The entire corpus of science fiction has trained humanity to fear the day when helpful household and industrial robots turn against it, in a Skynet-style uprising...
From ACM TechNews
Print No Evil: Three-Layer Technique Helps Secure Additive Manufacturing
Researchers have developed a three-layer system for validating that components produced via additive manufacturing have not been compromised.
From ACM TechNews
Are Your Tweets Feeling Well?
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory conducted a study to understand patterns of how people behave differently on social media when they are ill...
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DARPA Assured Autonomy Seeks to Guarantee Safety of Learning-Enabled Autonomous Systems
Researchers at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have launched a new research program that aims to advance the ways computing systems can learn...
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Martian Weather Kicks Into High Gear at Night
When night arrives on Mars, plunging temperatures can lead to weather much worse than researchers previously thought was possible on the Red Planet.
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Battery-Free Cellphones on the Horizon
Backscattering could eventually harness sufficient energy to power small devices.
From ACM TechNews
Using Machine Learning to Improve Patient Care
Researchers are investigating how computers can enhance medical decisions.
From ACM Careers
End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis for American Cashiers
The day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar...
From ACM Opinion
Tracing the Sources of Today's Russian Cyberthreat
Beyond carrying all of our phone, text and internet communications, cyberspace is an active battleground, with cybercriminals, government agents and even military...
From ACM TechNews
Google's New AI Learns by Baking Tasty Machine Learning Cookies
Google Vizier is an artificial intelligence system that automatically tunes other artificial intelligence programs.
From ACM TechNews
Spotting a Social Bot Might Be Harder Than You Think
Although savvy Internet users might think they can easily identify a social media bot, there are tricks a "bot army master" can use to make the accounts seem more...
From ACM TechNews
AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude Some African-American Voices
Researchers warn some artificial intelligence programs are inheriting biases against certain dialects, which could lead to automatic discrimination as language-based...
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Smart Computers
Researchers at the University of Freiburg's excellence cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools in Germany are showing how ideas from computer science could revolutionize...
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Follow the Bitcoin to Find Victims of Human Trafficking
Researchers say they have developed the first automated techniques to identify ads potentially tied to human trafficking rings and link them to public information...
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Computers Will Stitch Together First-Ever Megamovie of Solar Eclipse
Researchers are working on the "Eclipse Megamovie" project, in which volunteers take photos of the solar eclipse's path across the U.S. and upload the images to...
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Inside the Fighter Jet of the Future Where AI Is the Pilot
I'm in the cockpit of a Typhoon fighter jet. It's an overwhelming sea of buttons, twiddly knobs and square screens displaying various diagrams and measurements....
From ACM Careers