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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Scenic Sat-Nav Will Take You on the Prettiest Route
Autobahn is an artificial intelligence system that can use Google Street View images to optimize a driving route for a particular type of scenery.
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After 2,500 Years, a Chinese Gaming Mystery Is Solved
Computer scientist John Tromp has discovered the total number of legal positions on Go's standard 19x19 board.
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Self-Repair Techniques Point to Robots That Design Themselves
Robots are being taught to brainstorm alternatives when damaged.
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Football Coaches Are Turning to AI For Help Calling Plays
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.
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The Nfl Is Finally Tapping Into the Power of Data
The NFL may be the most popular and profitable major sport in America, but until recently, it's lagged behind other leagues in sophisticated use of data analysis...
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Oscar-Winning Animator and Filmmaker Chris Landreth at of T Computer Science
Award-winning animator and filmmaker Chris Landreth serves as distinguished research artist-in-residence at the University of Toronto's computer science department...
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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...
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MIT Researchers Want to Teach Robots How to Wash Dishes
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...
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Dancing with Drones
Drones may have a poor reputation as threats to privacy, but they offer a new dimension to dance.
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Four Important Things to Expect in Virtual Reality in 2016
Significant virtual reality milestones are expected this year.
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Four Important Things to Expect in Virtual Reality in 2016
Virtual reality has grown immensely over the past few years, but 2016 looks like the most important year yet: it will be the first time that consumers can get their...
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Seeing More Clearly
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.
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Better Memory
Advances in non-volatile memory are changing the face of computing and ushering in a new era of efficiencies.
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Preserving the Internet
Is the Internet ephemeral by its nature, or can it be archived?
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Facedirector Software Generates Desired Performances in Post-Production, Avoiding Reshoots
New software could mean film directors will no longer need to reshoot crucial scenes dozens of times until they are satisfied.
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Change the Way We Watch Sports
Machine learning and computer vision are being combined to provide commentary on professional sporting events as they occur.
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What Can—or Should—internet Companies Do to Fight Terrorism?
After the recent attacks in Paris and in San Bernardino, Calif., social media platforms are under pressure from politicians to do more to take down messages and...
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How the Science in 'star Wars’ Is Actually Real
For a story that takes place "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" a great deal of the technology in the "Star Wars" series actually has parallels today on...
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Custom AI Programs Take on Top Ranked Humans in Starcraft
In a recent contest, three Artificial Intelligence programs played against a Russian player in StarCraft: Brood War.
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