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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Making Chips Smarter
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are motivating researchers to design and build new chips to support different computing models.
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Bionics in Competition
Developers of innovative assistive devices compete as a means of networking with each other.
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How Youtube's Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media
At the age of 21, David Pakman started a little Massachusetts community radio talk program.
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Don't Worry, Driverless Cars Are Learning From Grand Theft Auto
In the race to the autonomous revolution, developers have realized there aren't enough hours in a day to clock the real-world miles needed to teach cars how to...
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A Chip Revolution Will Bring Better Vr Sooner Than You Think
David Kosslyn and Ian Thompson are the founders of a virtual reality company called Angle Technologies.
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We Know What You're Watching (even If It's Encrypted)
I stand firm in the opinion that it's my basic, human right to binge-watch six hours of trashy detective shows on a Friday night with a silent phone in my lap and...
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Star Trek's Holodeck: From Science Fiction to a New Reality
Advances in artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and computer graphics are converging to make the Holodeck featured on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"...
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Ghost in the Sell: Hollywood's Mischievous Vision of AI
Watch enough science fiction movies and you'll probably come to the conclusion that humans are living on borrowed time.
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Could Ms. Pac-Man Train the Next Generation of Military Drones?
Thirty-five years ago, while Martin Amis was writing "Money," one of the novels that defined the 1980s, he admitted to a distracting dalliance with another contemporary...
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People Remain Calm as the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests
University at Buffalo researchers found despite some violent acts, most people will be helpful to others as the world ends.
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Sensors on the Brain
Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.
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Computing the Arts
Artists can use software to create art, and some software creates art all on its own.
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New Studies Illustrate How Gamers Get Good
A new study followed players of the computer games "Halo: Reach" and "StarCraft 2" to learn how they acquired and maintained their skill level.
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AI Beats Professional Players at Super Smash Bros. Video Game
Researchers trained an artificial intelligence system to play Nintendo's "Super Smash Bros. Melee" using deep-learning algorithms, and then challenged and defeated...
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Thinking Deeply to Make Better Speech
More work is needed to make synthesized speech more natural, easier to understand, and more pleasant to hear.
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Gamespace Offers a Playable Visualization of 16,000 Videogames
Researchers have created a playable visualization of 16,000 video games grouped according to shared commonalities such as gameplay, cultural reactions, and game...
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Holograms From Sci-Fi Movies May Soon Become Reality
Researchers say they have developed a device that could generate the highest-quality holographic images ever produced and may lead to imaging technologies similar...
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Inside the 20-Year Quest to Build Computers That Play Poker
Four of the best professional poker players in the world spent most of January holed up at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, losing.
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