Researchers find a way to make many implanted medical devices virtually hack-proof.
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Contention Over H-1B Visas is Hot Again
Should the U.S. admit more, or fewer, foreign technology workers?
At a U.N. hackathon, open source developers strive to mitigate the impact of natural disasters.
Tech companies have bigger carbon footprints than ever. Here's what some of them are doing about it.
Good Algorithms Make Good Neighbors
Many computer scientists doubted ad hoc methods would ever give way to a more general approach to finding nearest neighbors. They were wrong.
A new framework is being used to secure the 2020 U.S. Census from database reconstruction attacks.
The Edge of Computational Photography
Smartphones and consumer cameras increasingly give professional photographers a run for their money.
Finding the Paradigms Underlying Computing in the Brain
James E. Smith presented "A Roadmap for Reverse-Architecting the Brain's Neocortex" today at ACM's Federated Computing Research Conference in Phoenix.
Today's facial recognition tools raise new questions about how, where, and when data can be used.
How Computation is Changing Journalism
Nicholas Diakopoulos has helped to make journalism is increasingly computational.
Advances in chatbots are changing the way we interact with computing devices.
How Tech Needs to Change for Coders with Disabilities
Programmers with disabilities continue to face serious accessibility issues.
In Memoriam: Raymond E. ‘Ray’ Miller 1928-2019
Miller was a Fellow of ACM, the IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board.
Striking First to Beat Hackers at Their Own Game
Researchers can use the same covert channels hackers have taken advantage of to protect a vehicle's control systems.
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun this month will receive the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
How long can the silicon foundry sector continue to adapt, as physical limits make further shrinkage virtually impossible?
Lifelong Learning in Artificial Neural Networks
New methods enable systems to rapidly, continuously adapt.
Employees are increasingly challenging technology companies on their ethical choices.
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