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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Nasa Drivers Await Chance to Operate Biggest, Baddest Mars Rover
The San Gabriel Mountains rise over a rough patch of sun-baked volcanic boulders, dusty flagstones, and earthen slopes.
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Computer Scientist Seeks to Improve Portability of Mobile Device Applications
Virginia Tech computer scientist Eli Tilevich is working to solve the problems of porting applications across mobile devices and platforms.
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Software Enables Pcs to Solve Problems That Once Required the Cloud
A new software program running on a single laptop or PC can, in some cases, solve bigger problems in less time than other available distributed frameworks.
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How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed.
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His Other Car Is on Mars
On Earth, Scott Maxwell drives his red Prius without paying much attention to the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.
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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing
An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected...
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Mapping the Future of Climate Change in Africa
Researchers at TACC are working on the Climate Change and African Political Stability program, which features an online mapping tool that analyzes how climate and...
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NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain
NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday...
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Newest Nasa Mars Mission Connects Past and Future
NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in two days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future...
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Is There a Virtual Mars in Our Future?
Imagine a day when virtual reality gets so good that you could take a computer-generated walk on the Martian surface, right here on Earth.
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Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons
For all their progress, computers are still pretty unimpressive.
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The Frightening Things You Hear at a Black Hat Conference
Here is a look at some of the highlights and scarier happenings taking place at the annual Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week.
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Identifying Trending Stories on Twitter and Optimal Temperature For Data Center Computers
UTSC professor Bianca Schroeder and students Nosayba El-Sayed, Ioan Stefanovici, George Amvrosiadis, and Andy A. Hwang received a best paper award at the recent...
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Curiosity Rover on Track For Early August Landing
Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago.
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Software: The New Networking Paradigm
VMware's planned acquisition of Nicra for $1.25 billion represents the evolution of networking beyond the hardware-dominated point of view that has sustained the...
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Mapping the ncanny Valley
University of North Carolina researcher Kurt Gray and Harvard University researcher Daniel Wegner speculate that experience plays a crucial role in generating the...
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Microsoft's Lost Decade
To the saccharine rhythm of a Muzak clip, Steve Ballmer crouched into a tackling stance and dashed across a ballroom stage at the Venetian Las Vegas.
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What a Win or Loss on Mars Will Mean
Anyone who's looked at the "Seven Minutes of Terror" trailer for next month's Mars landing might have wondered whether the planners behind NASA's $2.5 billion Mars...
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Scalable Device for Quantum Information Processing
National Physical Laboratory researchers have developed a monolithic 3D ion microtrap array that could be scaled up for use in quantum computing to run quantum...
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