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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New Technique May Open p an Era of Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices
A new technique can create high-quality semiconductor thin films only one atom thick.
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Computational Tool Translates Complex Data Into 2-Dimensional Images
A new computational method lets scientists visualize high-dimensional data produced by single-cell measurement technologies such as mass cytometry.
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Innovation Could Bring Flexible Solar Cells, Transistors, Displays
Researchers have developed a type of transparent electrode that could be used in solar cells, flexible displays, and future optoelectronic circuits.
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Energy-Efficient Computing Work Earns Science Foundation's Support
Arizona State University professor Carole-Jean Wu is researching how to convert waste heat in computing systems to usable electricity.
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ACM Honors Computing Innovators
ACM's awards celebrate achievements in networks, information retrieval, multi-agent systems, computer science education, versatile compiler technologies, and more...
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Proofs Probable
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
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Deep Learning Comes of Age
Advances on multiple fronts are bringing big improvements to the way computers learn, increasing the accuracy of speech and vision systems.
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The Future Is Flexible Displays
Manufacturers hint that bendable screens are coming soon, but academics argue that many engineering challenges remain.
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What Will Hackers Do with the New Kinect?
Microsoft announced a new version of the Xbox One earlier this week, and with it an improved and essentially reinvented version of Kinect, the company's body- and...
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Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus
The possibility of a new $200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.
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One Day Your Phone Will Know If You're Happy or Sad
As much time as we spend with our cell phones and laptops and tablets, it's still pretty much a one-way relationship.
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UAB Research Finds New Channels to Trigger Mobile Malware
Researchers have discovered new, hard-to-detect methods for triggering mobile device malware.
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Computer Brain Escapes Google's X Lab to Supercharge Search
Two years ago Stanford professor Andrew Ng joined Google's X Lab, the research group that's given us Google Glass and the company's driverless cars. His mission...
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Making Quantum Encryption Practical
One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD) in which the counterintuitive behavior...
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40 Years Ago, Ethernet's Fathers Were the Startup Kids
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs, and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup...
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3D Modeling Technology Offers Groundbreaking Solution for Engineers
New software will make it easier for engineers to develop real-world safety assessments of structures and foundations.
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Robots Learn to Take a Proper Handoff By Following Digitized Human Examples
Researchers have developed a method that allows a humanoid robot to receive an object handed to it by a person with a somewhat-natural human-like motion.
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Security Risks Found in Sensors For Heart Devices, Consumer Electronics
An international research team has exposed a vulnerability in the sensors used in medical devices, Bluetooth microphones, and computers.
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Parcels Find Their Way to You Via the Crowd
A potential crowd-powered delivery system called TwedEx would deliver packages to consumers without requiring them to deviate from normal routes.
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