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Jan 23 2024

Susan Landau Awarded AMS Bertrand Russell Prize

Landau was awarded the 2024 Bertrand Russell Prize for writing technical research papers and op-eds, publishing public-facing work, briefing policymakers, and participating in national studies. Susan Landau has received several awards in her career as an expert in computer privacy and security, but the most recent, the 2024 Bertrand Russell Prize of the American Mathematical […]

Allyn Jackson

Computing Profession

Jan 17 2024

ACM Publications Finances for 2022

Striving for Balance between Mission, Sustainability, and Growth

Wendy Hall, Divesh Srivastava, and Scott Delman

Computing Profession

A business person uses a variety of computing tools to review and analyze financial information.

Jan 16 2024

Artificial Organs Evolve

Crafting replacement parts for the human body.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

Jan 9 2024

AI Deepnets Throw Light on Ancient History

Artificial Intelligence helps us read the previously unreadable.

Paul Marks

Computing Applications

Jan 8 2024

Wayfinding Without GPS

Quantum entanglement provides a new direction in navigation.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

planets orbit around two compasses in magnetic field lines, illustration

Jan 8 2024

Why are Lawyers Afraid of AI?

Generative artificial intelligence and the law: there is no turning back.

Gregory Goth

Security and Privacy

screenshot of Casetext's CoCounsel AI legal assistant

Jan 8 2024

Epigenomics Now

Computer power helps biologists track the regulation of genetic information.

Don Monroe

Architecture and Hardware

computer display shows a DNA sequence and graphs

Dec 21 2023

National Lab Works to Cap, Reduce Carbon

Argonne National Laboratory will use supercomputers to help companies advance clean energy technologies with ultra-fidelity simulations and data analysis.

R. Colin Johnson

Computing Applications

Credit: Shutterstock AI wind turbines above a manufacturing operation, illustration

Dec 19 2023

Bigger, Not Necessarily Better

The inverse scaling issue means larger LLMs sometimes handle things less well.

Sandrine Ceurstemont

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Credit: Getty Images small sphere blocking large sphere

Dec 14 2023

Multiple Data Leaks at 23andme

From early August through October, genetics testing firm 23andme and its users were subject to dark web posts regarding millions of user profiles and genetic data records that cybercriminals leaked or breached. Threat actors have advertised various collections of the data records from the leaks for sale. According to BleepingComputer, and based on input from […]

David Geer

Data and Information

Dec 13 2023

Revamping Python for an AI World

Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.

Neil Savage

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

Dec 13 2023

Saving Digital Libraries and the Internet Archive

A battle over “truth and who has access to it in the digital age.”

Esther Shein

Society

console servers labeled 'Internet Archive'

Dec 12 2023

Wearable Data Predicted COVID Infections

Is convergence near for consumer and medical wearables?

Gregory Goth

Architecture and Hardware

Credit: Getty Images medical informatics, illustration

Dec 7 2023

Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots

By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems.

Samuel Greengard

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Dec 5 2023

Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture

Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.

R. Colin Johnson

Architecture and Hardware

Credit: Shutterstock man using a tablet in an agricultural field

Dec 1 2023

Tales of Topological Qubits

Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.

Chris Edwards

Systems and Networking

chip facsimile on a 3D block, illustration

Nov 30 2023

New York City Takes Aim at AI

The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.

Samuel Greengard

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Credit: Shutterstock bridge heading into New York City, AI-generated illustration

Nov 28 2023

Seeing the Light

Shining a light on light-based computing.

John Delaney

Architecture and Hardware

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Nov 21 2023

What Would the Chatbot Say?

Seeking to explain the unanticipated abilities of large language models.

Sandrine Ceurstemont

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Nov 16 2023

Making Empathy Artificial

Scientists strive to add the ability to understand what others are feeling to artificial intelligence.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

Credit: Getty Images heart held by a robotic hand, illustration

Nov 14 2023

Magnetic Sensors Pinpoint  GPU Cryptojacking Attacks

Identifying incursions with magnetic sensors.

Paul Marks

Architecture and Hardware

Credit: Shutterstock magnetic fields, illustration

Nov 9 2023

Earbuds to Monitor Brain, Body

These earbuds listen to you, to determine if your brain and/or body are working at peak efficiency.

R. Colin Johnson

Architecture and Hardware

Nov 7 2023

AIrtist: Co-creativity and Computer-Human Collaboration in the Arts

Far from being threatened by artificial intelligence, many creative practitioners are already embracing it—with some novel and unexpected results.

Karen Emslie

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Credit: Instituto Stocos Spanish choreographer and dancer Muriel Romero wears a bodysuit containing motion sensors that interact with light beams and artificial intelligence.

Nov 2 2023

Sexual Harassment, Gender Bias Against Women in STEM Remains Rife, Study Finds

Two-thirds of women STEM professionals surveyed report earning less than their male counterparts.

Laura DiDio

Computing Profession

Credit: Getty Images woman and grabbing hands, illustration of sexual harassment

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