Give Tax Time Phishing Attacks the Slip
Learning how to recognize tax-time email scams can help taxpayers and businesspeople avoid them.
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In Memoriam: John Horton Conway 1937-2020
Conway worked on the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory, coding theory, and even recreational mathematics.
Medical Professionals Tap AI to Combat COVID-19
Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are aiding hospitals and healthcare experts in the battle against the coronavirus.
Keeping Students Educated and Engaged
The use of distance learning has grown quickly in primary education, in response to school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.
CNNs Catch Animals in the Wild
Researchers are using convolutional neural networks to identify the few frames of interest among massive amounts of visual information.
Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.
How Universities Deploy Student Data
Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.
The looming threat of artificial intelligence-based deepfake voice conversion.
Keeping Government Out of Your Business
The Enforcer software can keep government surveillance from straying into illegality.
Let Evolution Design Your Robot
A U.K. research project uses evolutionary principles to design robots to help dismantle decommissioned nuclear power plants.
The Battle Over Autonomous Killing Machines
Should lethal autonomous weapon systems be programmed to strike and kill without direct human oversight?
Smartphones can analyze virtually every aspect of your personality, beliefs, and behaviors.
Driverless Cars Face Laser Sabotage
Attacks on the light-based radar (LiDAR) of autonomous vehicles could drive them off the road, or freeze them in their (tire) tracks.
Deep learning approaches can process images and video captured in less-then-desirable conditions, providing much clearer results.
NSF Accelerator is Open For Business
Attempting to harness the National Science Foundation’s 10 Big Ideas.
Algorithms to Harvest the Wind
Wake steering can help ever-larger turbines work together more efficiently on wind farms.
Can Nanosheet Transistors Keep Moore’s Law Alive?
The technology promises to advance semiconductors and computing, but also introduces new questions and challenges.
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
Bluetooth device users seldom suspect they are opening themselves to man-in-the-middle hacker attacks.
Futurists Get 15 Minutes Every 4 Years
Zoltan Istvan is the latest futurist to run for U.S. president.
Russia and other countries are turning to more stringent Internet controls that threaten the free flow of information.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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