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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Single Camera Can Capture High Quality Facial Performance
Researchers have developed a method of using one camera to obtain facial performance capture, a key component of visual effects for movies and computer games.
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Smartphone Apps For Social Good
Mobile apps make it easier, faster, and cheaper to create massive impact on social causes ranging from world hunger to domestic violence.
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Reinforcement Renaissance
The power of deep neural networks has sparked renewed interest in reinforcement learning, with applications to games, robotics, and beyond.
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Character Animation Technique Produces Realistic-Looking Bends at Joints
Phys.orgDisney researchers have developed a method to pre-compute an optimized center of rotation for each vertex in a character model.
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Microsoft's Project Malmo Public Release Brings AI to Minecraft
Microsoft announced the open source code underlying its Project Malmo is now publicly available, enabling artificial intelligence experimentation by Minecraft users...
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Accelerating Search
The latest in machine learning helps high-energy physicists handle the enormous amounts of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider.
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Legal Advice on the Smartphone
New apps help individuals contest traffic, parking tickets.
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Speaking in Song
Researchers have developed voice synthesis software they say can make anyone's singing voice sound more melodious.
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Can Computers Do Magic?
Queen Mary University of London researchers have found magicians could use computers to create new magic effects and find new ideas for their performances.
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Why the World Hates Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is the new Rome. As in the time of Caesar, the world is grappling with an advanced city-state dominating much of the planet, injecting its technology...
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Kellogg S. Booth: 2016 Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award
Kellogg Booth’s career has been dominated by an unwavering belief that Canada could make a serious and positive impact on the evolution of digital media.
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Google nveils 'artificial Creativity'
Google's Magenta artificial intelligence is being challenged to produce original music and other art.
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Study of 1 Million Sites Shows Just How Closely We're Watched
The web is watching you. Chunks of code hide inside every website, tracking your online behaviour.
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Games that Teach Coding
A growing number of games seek to introduce the concepts of programming to young players.
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What Happens When Big Data Blunders?
Big data is touted as a cure-all for challenges in business, government, and healthcare, but as disease outbreak predictions show, big data often fails.
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Reimagining Search
Search engine developers are moving beyond the problem of document analysis, toward the elusive goal of figuring out what people really want.
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What's Next For Digital Humanities?
New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.
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How Will Virtual Reality Change Our Lives?
And it's not just gamers who are benefiting from the immersive possibilities it offers.
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Technique Makes Holograms Highly Efficient, Secure
Harvard University researchers have programmed polarization into compact holograms.
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