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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Computer System Automatically Solves Word Problems
Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working with colleagues at the University of Washington, have developed a new computer...
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Cars That Look and Listen to Find Themselves a Parking Spot
Researchers affiliated with South Korea's Hanyang University are developing a system to fully automate the parking process, including helping find a parking space...
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Transcending Artificial Intelligence
While it can be a blast going to see the latest Hollywood sci-fi thriller, watching it along with a leading expert in the science and technology fields relevant...
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Massachusetts Invests In Big Data Innovation
Massachusetts is providing $3 million in funding to launch its Open Cloud project to build a new public cloud computing infrastructure for big data innovation.
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Watson in Your Pocket: Supercomputer Gets Own Apps
If you could quiz Watson, IBM's all-knowing supercomputer, from an app on your phone, what would you ask it?
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A System Detects Global Trends in Social Networks Two Months in Advance
A new monitoring method identifies what information will be relevant on social networks as far as two months in advance.
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Fifty Years of Basic, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it's a shame more people don't learn to do it.
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Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm
At a bitcoin conference in Miami this January, Jeffrey Tucker, a laissez-faire economist and libertarian icon, made an unexpected observation.
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Data Mashups Can Help Answer the World's Biggest Questions
The Medical and Environmental Data Mashup Infrastructure project aims to enable research into the links between climate, weather, environment, and health.
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Computer Program Could Help Solve Arson Cases
Researchers say they have developed software that can cut the time needed to determine the cause of a deliberately set fire.
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The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets
The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car.
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p Close on Baseball's Borders
Steve Rushin of Sports Illustrated has called the line running through Connecticut that separates Yankee fans and Red Sox fans the Munson-Nixon line.
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Robot Scouts Rooms People Can't Enter
Student researchers are working with Sandia National Laboratories to develop a robotic system that can be used to map rooms in three-dimensional space.
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Technology Confounds the Courts
Despite the need to make decisions relevant to technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court is not the most techno-savvy group.
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The Forever Disc
Can our digital data represent us a million years from now?
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How Computers Are Changing Biology
Sophisticated computer models and simulations are replacing test tubes and beakers. This revolution in biology research is redefining medicine, agriculture, and...
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Computational Method Dramatically Speeds Up Estimates of Gene Expression, CMU, UMD Researchers Report
Researchers say they have developed a computational method that dramatically speeds up estimates of gene activity from RNA sequencing data.
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Wikipedia Searches and Sick Tweets Predict Flu Cases
A new algorithm mines data from Wikipedia to track flu cases across the United States.
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Google Algorithm Busts Captcha With 99.8 Percent Accuracy
The algorithm used by Google's Street View team to improve Google Maps also can beat CAPTCHAs with 99.8-percent accuracy.
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