The notion of using implantable chips to authenticate people is gaining support, but it raises important privacy questions.
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Ten Traits of Exceptional Innovators
I have had the privilege of meeting, and in some cases closely interacting with, pioneer scientists, technologists, and entrepreneurs, including Nobel, Fields, and Turing winners. It is only fair that I should share some of the traits I have observed in them.
Detecting Mental Illness by Watching You Type
Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify whether you suffer from a brain disorder.
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have great impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
Mystery Dating of the World-famous ‘Millionaire’ Calculating Machine Solved
Regarding the discovery of new documents about the H.W. Egli AG (Zurich) company in the Museum für Kommunikation, Berne, Switzerland.
Artificial intelligence video system sends smartphone messages based on how you move.
Assessing the Impact of Cryptography on Internet Privacy
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman on the relationship between cryptography and Internet privacy, and the impact the Turing Award has had on their lives, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
The Internet in the 21st Century
Many people are finding ways to do harmful things through the Internet medium. Responses to these abuses have been sporadic at best.
Hennessy and Patterson on the Roots of RISC
Awarding ACM's 2017 A.M. Turing Award to John Hennessy and David Patterson was richly deserved and long overdue. It would have been good if "Rewarded for RISC" (June 2018) had mentioned the contributions of John Cocke at IBM.
Can We Use AI for Global Good?
Amir Banifatemi observes how the AI for Good Summit "allowed us to start a dialogue, find a common frame of reference, and decide how our steps would be smart and structured."
The Business of Quantum Computing
Considering the similarities of quantum computing development to the early years of conventional computing.
The Obscene Coupling Known as Spaghetti Code
Teach your junior programmers how to read code.
Building the Universal Archive of Source Code
A global collaborative project for the benefit of all.
Are CS Conferences (Too) Closed Communities?
Assessing whether newcomers have a more difficult time achieving paper acceptance at established conferences.
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.
The Secret Formula for Choosing the Right Next Role
The best careers are not defined by titles or résumé bullet points.
The Productivity Paradox in Health Information Technology
New York State healthcare providers increased their use of the technology but delivered only mixed results for their patients.
Formally Verified Software in the Real World
Verified software secures the Unmanned Little Bird autonomous helicopter against mid-flight cyber attacks.
The future of computing research relies on addressing an array of limitations on a planetary scale.
Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided
In this work, we design and develop bufferless protocols that demonstrate how to implement the MPI-3 RMA interface and support scaling to millions of cores.
Technical Perspective: The Future of MPI
"Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided" convincingly shows that the potential of MPI one-sided communication can be realized.
Reaping the Benefits of a Diverse Background
Earlier this year, ACM named Dina Katabi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory recipient of the 2017 ACM Prize in Computing for her creative contributions to wireless systems.
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
Shape the Future of Computing
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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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