News – Page 42 – Communications of the ACM

Feb 2 2017

Pollsters’ Failures Signal Need For Changes

For opinion researchers, the unexpected outcomes of the Brexit vote and the U.S. presidential election signals it is time to reassess the kinds of data they gather and how they analyze and present it.

Gregory Goth

Computing Profession

Choices frequently offered in opinion polls.

Feb 1 2017

It’s Not the Algorithm, It’s the Data

In risk assessment and predictive policing, biased data can yield biased results.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Computing Applications

It's Not the Algorithm, It's the Data, illustrative photo

Feb 1 2017

Are Computer Chips the New Security Threat?

Security researchers have identified a technique for installing a backdoor on computer chips, a security flaw that could profoundly change the computing industry.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

Are Computer Chips the New Security Threat? illustrative photo

Feb 1 2017

Secure Quantum Communications

Data locking experiments provide stepping stones to a possible future in quantum cryptography.

Chris Edwards

Architecture and Hardware

Secure Quantum Communications, illustration

Jan 31 2017

Supercomputers to Replace Particle Accelerators?

Moving beyond the need for physical experiments.

R. Colin Johnson

Architecture and Hardware

A visualization of a simulated collision event in the ATLAS detector of the Large Hadron Collider.

Jan 27 2017

Top Technews Stories of 2016

Readers voted with their clicks.

Lawrence M. Fisher

Computing Profession

Jan 26 2017

How AI Is Changing Software Development

Artificial intelligence technologies like advanced machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing will help build better software faster.

Esther Shein

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jan 24 2017

The Road to Progress

Smarter roads will pave the way to a future with smoother, more efficient transportation.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

Some smart roads will be able to depict current road conditions with images of rain or snowflakes.

Jan 17 2017

Computer Models Help Fight Climate Change

Salt marsh modeling holds the potential to protect coastal locations from rising sea levels.

Gregory Goth

Computing Profession

Jan 12 2017

Stepping Stones in an Ocean of Data

An interview with science writer, entrepreneur, and National Public Radio’s “Math Guy,” Keith Devlin.

Bennie Mols

Computing Profession

Writer, entrepreneur, and National Public Radio's "Math Guy," Keith Devlin.

Jan 10 2017

Vr Trauma Surgery 101: Going For the Grisly

Medical students experience the controlled chaos of trauma surgery, virtually.

Joe Dysart

Architecture and Hardware

Amitabh Varshney (left) and Sarah Murthi at work in the University of Maryland’s Augmentarium.

Jan 5 2017

The U.S. Goes All-In on Tech Inclusion

A wave of U.S. federal funding aims to make the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields more inclusive.

Logan Kugler

Architecture and Hardware

COMPUgirls participants program a Nao robot to dance.

Jan 1 2017

Bias in Technology

As leading companies release troubling diversity statistics, experts search for solutions.

Gregory Mone

Computing Applications

Jan 1 2017

Pure Randomness Extracted from Two Poor Sources

Developments from several disparate areas of computer science provide "a huge jump, both technically and also quantitatively."

Don Monroe

Systems and Networking

Pure Randomness Extracted from Two Poor Sources, photo illustration

Jan 1 2017

Mapping the Internet of Things

Researchers are discovering surprising new risks across the fast-growing IoT.

Alex Wright

Architecture and Hardware

Dec 29 2016

Exploring Post-Quantum Cryptography

The New Hope post-quantum algorithm to protect encryptions against quantum computers won its developers Facebook’s 2016 Internet Defense Prize (and $100,000); Google is experimenting with its use for part of its data traffic.

Arnout Jaspers

Computing Profession

Quantum computers could break current encyption schemes.

Dec 27 2016

Settling p via Closed Loop Digital Wallets

Starbucks and others are providing app-based alternatives to Apple Pay, Android Pay.

Mark Broderick

Computing Applications

Dec 22 2016

Swearing Dolls, Other Iot Intrusions Threaten Children’s Well-Being, Privacy, Data

The Internet of Playthings is not necessarily a safe place.

Mark Halper

Computing Applications

Dec 20 2016

Welcome to the Machines

The home robotics market poised for growth, technological advancement.

Darrell Dunn

Architecture and Hardware

Dec 16 2016

Meet The Municipal Chief Digital Officer

Finally, someone to make cities’ technology relevant.

Mark Halper

Computing Profession

The Capital, a new innovation hub managed by Brisbane, Australia's chief digital officer.

Dec 14 2016

Who Decides the Future of Work?

The beginning of “a broad conversation” on whether technology should drive society, or should people make decisions about how technology supplements (or supplants) employment?

Lawrence M. Fisher

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Dec 13 2016

Big Data Projects Ramp p

Harvested data could hold the key to solving some of society’s greatest problems.

Gary Anthes

Computing Profession

The U.S., segmented into four Big Data regions.

Dec 9 2016

In Memoriam: Andrew Birrell 1951-2016

He specialized in "in the general area of operating systems and distributed systems, with occasional excursions into security."

Lawrence M. Fisher

Computing Applications

Dec 8 2016

A Drug Laboratory on Wheels

Decentralizing the way medicines are made.

Joe Dysart

Architecture and Hardware

The portable drug lab could decentralize the way drugs are made.

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