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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As Amazon Pushes Forward With Robots, Workers Find New Roles
Nissa Scott started working at the cavernous Amazon warehouse in southern New Jersey late last year, stacking plastic bins the size of small ottomans.
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In the Future, Warehouse Robots Will Learn on Their Own
The robot was perched over a bin filled with random objects, from a box of instant oatmeal to a small toy shark.
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New App Could Transform Music Teaching in Schools
Syncphonia is a new application that enables a music teacher to deconstruct a piece of music into its component parts, so each player's part is displayed individually...
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Meet Marie desJardins, 2017 Educator ABIE Award Winner
An interview with University of Maryland educator Marie desJardins, this year's A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award winner.
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For Superpowers, Artificial Intelligence Fuels New Global Arms Race
For many Russian students, the academic year started last Friday with tips on planetary domination from President Vladimir Putin.
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Our Weather-Prediction Models Keep Getting Better, and Hurricane Irma Is the Proof
By Wednesday of last week, even as Tropical Storm Harvey continued to rain devastation on the Gulf Coast, a new storm, Irma, was taking shape in the eastern Atlantic...
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In a High-Tech World, Car Designers Still Rely on Clay
Car designers have every kind of software and virtual reality tool. But when they want to make sure a car's curves look just right, they rely on one of the world's...
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Microsoft and Cornell Tech Announce New Partnership
Microsoft is partnering with the Cornell Tech-based Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts.
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The Effectiveness of Coding Camps
Do coding schools really get you working faster, with better pay, than college computer science courses?
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Fear of Robots Taking Jobs Spurs a Bold Idea: Guaranteed Pay
Driverless trucks. Factory robots. Delivery drones. Virtual personal assistants.
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Most TV Computer Scientists Are Still White Men. Google Wants to Change That
Google is urging Hollywood to diversify the gender and ethnicity of computer scientists appearing on TV and film.
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Putin: Leader in Artificial Intelligence Will Rule World
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world.
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NYU Steinhardt Awarded More Than $4 Million From National Science Foundation for STEM Education Research
The National Science Foundation has awarded New York University grants totalling more than $4 million for research to improve computer science and computational...
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2 to Receive 2017 ACM/IEEE George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
The Fellowships honor exceptional Ph.D. students worldwide whose research focuses on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and large-scale data analysis...
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Why AI Visionary Andrew Ng Teaches Humans to Teach Computers
Stanford University professor Andrew Ng's current area of concentration is teaching next-generation artificial intelligence specialists to train computers.
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NSF Announces $17.7M in Awards for Cross-Disciplinary Data Sciences Projects
The U.S. National Science Foundation will allocate $17.7 million to fund 12 Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science projects that support research...
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With the USSÂ McCain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
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Teaching Kids Coding, by the Book
Girls Who Code has arranged a deal with Penguin to release 13 books over the next two years.
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Turing Laureates Celebrate Award's 50th Anniversary
ACM recently held a conference in celebration of the first 50 years of the ACM A.M. Turing Award.
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