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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sing Real-Time Road Traffic Data to Evaluate Congestion
Cambridge University researchers are working on the Transport Information Monitoring Environment (TIME) project, which aims to provide data that enables businesses...
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Car Control Software Chaos Revealed in Major Safety Study
While automated software control systems are increasingly being used in vehicles, safety authorities do not have enough expertise to measure or regulate them, according...
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Oxford, Harvard Scientists Lead Data-Sharing Effort
More than 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organizations worldwide have developed a common standard that will enable scientists to share data from different...
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Fbi Seeks Data-Mining App For Social Media
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to develop a data-mining application that will enable the agency to monitor social media network activity for intelligence...
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Digitizing Health Records, Before It Was Cool
The push to move the nation from paper to electronic health records is serious business. That's why a first look at the campus of Epic Systems comes as something...
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The Social Life of Robots
Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever learn to get along?
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The Science of Better Science
Researchers are exploring networked computational analysis, formal classification, and topic modeling to better identify relevant scientists, ideas, and trends.
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Project Dreamcatcher
How cutting-edge text analytics can help the Obama campaign determine voters' hopes and fears.
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Linux Adoption Grows on Big Data, Cloud, Virtualization: Survey
New and veteran users of Linux continue to embrace the platform at the expense of Windows and Unix, according to a recent report from the Linux Foundation.
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Why The 'check Engine' Light Must Be Banned
It's pretty easy to dismiss the "check engine" light as just stupid, because, well, it is.
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It's Time to Start 3d Scanning the World
When Microsoft was developing its Kinect 3D sensor, a critical task was to calibrate its algorithms to rapidly and accurately recognize parts of the human body,...
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A Wireless Road Around Data Traffic Jams
The vast data centers that process information for the Facebooks and Amazons of the Web work at a brisk clip. But even so, they can't always keep up.
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Google's Data Center Engineer Shares Secrets of 'warehouse' Computing
Luiz André Barroso doesn't see Google's data centers as data centers. He sees them as computers the size of warehouses.
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New Storage Device Is Very Small, at 12 Atoms
Researchers at I.B.M. have stored and retrieved digital 1s and 0s from an array of just 12 atoms, pushing the boundaries of the magnetic storage of information...
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Should Computers Have Their Own Web Sites?
Organizations could use a new top-level domain, .data, to share data in a standard form, writes Stephen Wolfram, creator of the computational knowledge engine Wolfram...
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Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
Astronomers said Wednesday that each of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way probably has at least one companion planet, adding credence to the notion that...
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Encrypting Pictures Using Chaotic Cellular Automata
Marina Jeaneth Machicao and colleagues at the University of San Paul in Brazil are using chaos to encrypt images. Their approach generates a pseudo-random signal...
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So, What's Your Algorithm?
The beginning of a transformation in day-to-day business decisions informed by real-time analytics mined from immense databases is in store for this year, as computers...
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Revamping Storage Performance
Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.
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