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 Technology Coordinates Drones in Team Missions
West Virginia University researchers have developed a genetic algorithm to mobilize unmanned aerial vehicles in team missions.
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Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.
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Apple and Nokia Battle Over Cellphone Patents
Apple's iPhone is a technological marvel.
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.s. Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media
The U.S. government quietly began requesting that select foreign visitors provide their Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts upon arriving in the country...
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Ford Studies sing Drones to Guide Self-Driving Cars
Ford Motor researchers are studying a system to use drones to help guide self-driving vehicles, including on off-road adventures.
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The Year Encryption Won
Between the revelations of mega-hacks of Yahoo and others, Russia's meddling in the US electoral system, and the recent spike in ransomware, it's easy to look at...
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Intel Bets It Can Turn Everyday Silicon Into Quantum Computing's Wonder Material
Sometimes the solution to a problem is staring you in the face all along.
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The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It's Automation.
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...
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Rice, Baylor Team Sets New Mark For 'deep Learning'
A new deep learning method developed by researchers at Rice University and the Baylor College of Medicine enables computers to learn about the visual world with...
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Motion-Planning Chip Speeds Robots
Duke University researchers say they have developed a custom processor to perform robotic motion planning that accelerates the process by three orders of magnitude...
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Why Microsoft Believes We're on the Threshold of Quantum Computing
Most researchers aiming to make quantum computing a reality focus on superconducting quantum bits (qubits), but Microsoft's approach avoids harnessing electronic...
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European Court of Justice Rules Against Mass Data Retention in Eu
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled on Wednesday that laws allowing for the blanket collection and retention of location and traffic data are...
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Building Jarvis
My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run my home—like Jarvis in Iron Man.
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Nvidia Surges in 2016 Using Graphics Chips to Challenge Intel
When Paulina Sliwinska, a fund manager at Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford & Co., made the trip to Silicon Valley looking for the next big thing in technology, she...
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Researchers Propose sing Software-Defined Networking to nify Cloud and Edge
Researchers from Germany, Canada, and the U.S. have proposed a method to use cloud and fog computing structures to complement one another.
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Grids of Defects Make Diamonds Practical For Quantum Computing
One of the more exciting things happening in physics at the moment is the development of quantum computers that may actually be able to do something useful.
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The Great A.i. Awakening
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...
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Mapping the Internet of Things
Researchers are discovering surprising new risks across the fast-growing IoT.
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Computers Can Take Social Media Data and Make Marketing Personas
Pennsylvania State University researchers have used computers to study information from social media accounts and automatically build marketing personas.
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