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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Computer Engineering: Feeling the Heat
A laptop computer can double as an effective portable knee-warmer—pleasant in a cold office.
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Learn English Online: How the Internet Is Changing Language
Online, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing.
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'pinch-and-Paste' App Boosts Your Interior Design Skills
An augmented reality app could one day enable tablets and smartphones to show how a living room would look like with a tiger-print shag-pile carpet or other modifications...
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Big Nsf Grant Funds Research Into Training Robots to Work With Humans
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $3.5 million grant to University of California, Berkeley robotics researchers Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel...
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Html5 Is Now Feature-Complete; Here's What Comes Next
The World Wide Web Consortium is mapping out enhancements for future versions of its HTML5 and Canvas 2D specifications, which it recently declared "feature-complete...
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Nist Nobel Winner Leads Work on Code-Breaking Computer
Research by U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology physicist David Wineland is part of an international race to develop quantum computers.
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Intel Offers an Image of the Workplace of the Future
Intel researchers recently offered predictions on how workers and workplaces will change over the next 10 to 20 years. "Most people work 9-to-5 jobs, are selfView...
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The Man Looking to Turn Samsung Into a Silicon Valley Trendsetter
Samsung Electronics is a company at the top of its game, having become the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer in the last year.
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The Woman Charged With Making Windows 8 Succeed
As the head of Windows product development at Microsoft, Julie Larson-Green is responsible for a piece of software used by some 1.3 billion people worldwide.
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Warning, Speedsters: You Can't Fool Quantum Radar
Is it a bird, a plane, or a speeding car?
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Just the Facts
In repackaging other companies' news, some news aggregators are diverting readers and ad dollars, and, critics argue, undercutting the incentive to spend money...
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Beyond Hadoop
The leading open source system for processing big data continues to evolve, but new approaches with added features are on the rise.
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Stopping the Leaks
Side channels give out information that can be used to crack secrets, but researchers are identifying the holes and trying to close them.
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Debunker of Doomsday: Nasa Scientist Tries to Talk Some Sense Into the World
Swirling with lunacy and paranoia, the theories warn of mayhem and cataclysm.
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A More Human Artificial Brain
There are times when I wonder why so many scientists are spending so much time trying to recreate something as fickle and full of fogginess as the human brain.
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Robotic Gadgets For Household Chores
Joseph Schlesinger, an engineer living near Boston, thinks robotic toys are too expensive, the result of extravagant designs, expensive components and a poor understanding...
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Touchpad Steering Wheel Keeps Eyes on the Road
Intel researchers have developed a touch-sensitive steering wheel that enables drivers to call up information that is displayed on the windshield.
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Ibm: In the Next 5 Years Computers Will Learn, Mimic the Human Senses
A new generation of machines that learn, adapt, sense, and experience the world as humans do through the five basic senses is one of the technologies highlighted...
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Tor: An Anonymous, and Controversial, Way to Web-Surf
The Tor Project, which was created 10 years ago to hide the online activity of dissidents in countries that censor the Internet, has recently seen its popularity...
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