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Digital Receipts Help Solve a Growing Paper Problem
Retailers explore alternatives to the increasingly lengthy paper receipt.
How apps like Inkl and SmartNews are overcoming the challenges of aggregation to win over content publishers and users alike.
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
Ticket to Ride: Financing For Code Camp
Financing options for coding boot camps help get new programmers gain skills, and eventually, jobs.
Will Barbie Pass the Turing Test?
Startups are beginning to empower toys with child-friendly speech recognition technology.
Researchers are studying birds and insects in order to make drone flight second nature.
Google Takes On Mobile Payments
Android Pay follows hard on the heels of Apple Pay in the 'tap and pay' sector.
Teaching Computers with Illusions
Exploring the ways human vision can be fooled is helping developers of machine vision.
The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
AI Researchers Call For Ban on Autonomous Weapons
Technologists ask the UN to outlaw weapons that operate outside of human control.
Silicon Brains Compete at Games
The 18th Computer Olympiad had programs vying against each other in strategic game-playing.
The Dallas Cowboys is the first professional football team to use Virtual Reality in player training; others are following suit.
A New ‘model For Models’ in Software Development Effort Estimation
Researchers put forth an automatically transformed linear model as a suitable baseline model for comparison against software estimation effort models.
Head-Mounted Displays to Aid the Disabled
Products like the Oculus Rift and Google Glass could help ameliorate physical and perceptual impairments.
Growing Pains For Deep Learning
Neural networks, which support online image search and speech recognition, eventually will drive more advanced services.
ACM Announces 2014 Award Recipients
Recognizing excellence in technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology.
A New Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of ACM
I am extremely pleased to welcome Robert (Bobby) Schnabel as the new CEO and Executive Director of ACM.
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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