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Healthcare agent: eliciting the power of large language models for medical consultation
Ren Z., Zhan Y., Yu B., Ding L., Xu P., Tao D. npj Artificial Intelligence 11-9, 2025.  Type: Article

The design of a reliable healthcare agent for solving diverse, intertwined healthcare issues is thought-provoking. How should an effective agent provide safe and quality responses to inquiries? Zhiyao et al. explore the potential of large language...

Apr 13 2026
Quantum computing for the brain
Swan M., dos Santos R., Lebedev M., Witte F., WORLD SCIENTIFIC, Hackensack, NJ, 2022. 552 pp.  Type: Book (1800610610)

Have you ever wondered why the human brain correctly distinguishes between a flute and a piano yet our measures of timbre (quality of sound) are not foolproof, that is, they are more sensitive to pitch and less to timbre? It is because the brain a...

Apr 6 2026
Just enough data science and machine learning: essential tools and techniques
Levene M., Harris M., Pearson, Hoboken, NJ, 2024. 224 pp.  Type: Book (9780138340742), Reviews: (2 of 2)

As its title suggests, this book aims to provide readers with a concise yet foundational introduction to data science and machine learning. The authors successfully outline the essential concepts of both fields, highlighting data science as an int...

Mar 30 2026
Against imaginary friends: why digital companions are no solution to social isolation
Sparrow R., Brown J. Communications of the ACM 69(2): 60-68, 2026.  Type: Article

This provocative article debates the technological progress toward “digital humans” versus “digital companions.” The argument: less is more, but not necessarily good enough....

Mar 23 2026
The ethics of artificial intelligence in defence
Taddeo M., OXFORD UNIVERISTY PRESS, Oxford, UK, 2024. 304 pp.  Type: Book (9780197745441)

This comprehensive and methodical volume, the groundwork for “[an] ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) in defense,” presents a critically important and structured inquiry into one of the most pressing technological and ethical chall...

Mar 16 2026
Digital authoritarianism in the making: repression and resistance on the Russian Internet
Daucé F., Loveluck B., Musiani F., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2025. 272 pp.  Type: Book (0262553678)

Digital authoritarianism in the making presents a detailed examination of Russia’s evolving digital landscape, where state control, platform governance, and grassroots resistance intersect in complex ways. Rather than offering a broad...

Mar 9 2026
Confusing the map for the territory
Qadri R., Madaio M., Gray M. Communications of the ACM 68(10): 32-34, 2025.  Type: Article

When I first read this article, a couple of lateral thoughts came to me illustrating the oversimplification of common cultural themes and icons. In old movies, a scene set in Paris has the Eiffel Tower visible through every window. Texas looks lik...

Mar 2 2026
Generative artificial intelligence: a law and economics approach to optimal regulation and governance
Kovac M., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2024. 150 pp.  Type: Book (9783031655135)

Generative artificial intelligence is thoughtful, ambitious, and highly relevant to contemporary debates on artificial intelligence (AI) governance. When generative AI systems are reshaping markets, institutions, and social relations, the b...

Feb 23 2026
Visualization for social data science
Beecham R., Chapman&Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2025. 218 pp.  Type: Book (103225971X)

Roger Beecham’s Visualization for social data science is a concise, practice-first introduction to using graphics as an integral part of social science analysis. The book walks the reader from visual exploration to model-informed disp...

Feb 16 2026
Fifty years of open source software supply-chain security
Cox R. Communications of the ACM 68(10): 88-95, 2025.  Type: Article

Commercial software developers typically use specialized tools to ensure that their software is developed securely and largely fault free--although the regular release of security patches by some large organizations suggests considerable room...

Feb 9 2026
 
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