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How Software Enabled the Thai Cave Rescue
Software-defined radios allowed the rescuers to communicate, when simple radio technology could not.
Financial Services Firms Battle Cyberthreats
The growing number of cybercrimes, combined with a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, means the financial services sector faces higher security costs, greater risk.
.S. Election System Security Still Vexing
There appears to be no standard approach among the state and local jurisdictions that will administer the next election.
Detecting Illness by Watching You Type
Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify your brain disorder.
This is a plea to the technical community working in the domain of natural language processing and natural language understanding to appreciate the difference between the two, and to set some standards in the public media that seem now to be seriously inappropriate.
AI Helps Doctors Use Data Better
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have a significant impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
Driver’s Licenses Going Digital
Iowa plans to be the first U.S. state to replace hard-copy driver's licenses with an app.
Computer Science Encyclopedia Can Fill a Gap
Our profession has the credibility and resources to create an Encyclopedia that will serve as the professional standard.
A look at today's headlines suggests the transnational Internet and World Wide Web have become avenues through which the Peace of Westphalia agreement is regularly violated.
Whether or not the theory of disruptive innovation has predictive power, it is a powerful story that explains the rise and fall of tech empires. It is deeply embedded in the psyche of Silicon Valley.
Discovering Bugs, or Ensuring Success?
Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.
Peer Assessment of CS Doctoral Programs Shows Strong Correlation with Faculty Citations
Strong correlation indicates notable research productivity of individual faculty members in turn boosts the standing of their programs.
Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals
This paper demonstrates a new technology that can infer a person's emotions from RF signals reflected off his body.
Technical Perspective: Is Your WiFi a Sensor?
"Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals" shows that not only can the heartrate be counted with accuracy comparable to ECG devices, but the variabilities of the heart signals—in each pulse—can be recognized as well.
Is Software the Result of Top-Down Intelligent Design or Evolution?
Considering the potential danger to individuals of rapid coevolution.
An Academic’s Observations from a Sabbatical at Google
How experiences gained in industry can improve academic research and teaching.
Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
Genomic research has led to remarkable insights and medical breakthroughs, but it also represents serious privacy risks.
Blockchain's undeletable data can address privacy and security issues in the fine art markets.
MIT's Josh Tenenbaum on how people think and learn, and how to make machines do likewise.
Did Albert Einstein Calculate on the ‘Millionaire’ in Zurich?
In 1897, ETH Zurich was the first university in the world to have a copy of the legendary four-species calculating machine Millionaire.
Maturing bug bounty programs spot data abuse, secure the Internet of Things.
Irrational Exuberance and the ‘FATE’ of Technology
Questions of verification, safety, and trust must be central when we embody intelligence in physical systems.
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