Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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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.
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Accelerating Optical Communications with AI
Communications efficiency helps bring photonics to artificial intelligence.
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AlphaFold Spreads through Protein Science
Based on machine learning, DeepMind's code now lies at the heart of a variety of protein-structure tools and workflows. It may ultimately be replaced by models...
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Error Control Begins to Shape Quantum Architectures
The overhead of error correction presents a serious challenge to scaling up quantum computing and may produce unexpected winners.
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Go Backward, Save Energy
Reversible computing principles point a way toward more efficient computers.
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Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners
Measurement has driven research groups to home in on the most popular datasets, but that may change as metrics shift to real-world quality.
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A Group Effort
Researchers look for new insights in the world of hypergraphs.
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Shrinking Artificial Intelligence
Energy concerns push AI optimizations to the edge.
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Holograms on the Horizon?
Machine learning drives toward 3D imaging on the move.
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A Switch in Time
The introduction of the nanosheet transistor is just one step in the continuing attempt to stick to the spirit of Moore's Law.
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Let the Algorithm Decide?
Algorithms fail their first test to replace student exams.
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The Best of NLP
Natural language processing delves more deeply into its knowledge gap.
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Moore's Law: What Comes Next?
Moore's Law challenges point to changes in software.
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Coalition of the Willing Takes Aim at COVID-19
Data science can only do so much in the face of a pandemic.
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Learning to Trust Quantum Computers
They need to show us they can solve the biggest problems.
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Questioning Quantum
Researchers hunt for ways to keep quantum computing honest.
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Animals Teach Robots to Find Their Way
Navigation research demonstrates bio-machine symbiosis.
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Quantum Technology Forgoes Unconditional Security to Extend its Reach
Two projects in China demonstrate the possibility of global quantum key distribution networks.
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Secure Quantum Communications
Data locking experiments provide stepping stones to a possible future in quantum cryptography.12