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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The Weather Channel's Secret: Less Weather, More Clickbait
The writers and editors at the Weather Channel's weather.com don’t often talk about the weather.
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Real Holodeck Turns Your Living Room Into a Game
Good news, Star Trek fans: Microsoft has created a prototype Holodeck that transforms an entire room into a virtual gaming environment.
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Can Virtual Reality Make You a Better Person?
"This is already so real, I don’t know if I even want to do this anymore," I say out loud.
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Google Working on Large-Scale Video Displays
Google's advanced-projects lab, Google X, is developing a giant display consisting of smaller screens that fit together to create a seamless image.
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School Bets Video Game Scholarship Can Draw Talent
As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted.
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'dr. Fill' Vies For Crossword Solving Supremacy, but Still Comes p Short
Computers have long been able to beat even the best human opponents at games such as chess, but humans remain dominant when it comes to the crossword puzzle.
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Still Seeking the Optical Transistor
Optical information handling is a critical staple for communications and the Internet, but using light for computer-scale computation remains a distant dream.
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Museums Go High-Tech with Digital Forensics
Scientists are using cutting-edge scanning and visualization techniques to wow visitors and find new stories in ancient artifacts.
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The New Digital Medicine
Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.
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Weathering a New Era of Big Data
Increased computing power combined with new and more advanced models are changing weather forecasting.
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Gaze-Tracker Lets You Connect to Devices with a Glance
An eye-tracking camera calculates where the wearer is looking, and transmits it to all the nearby Internet-connected devices, such as stereos and TVs, via Wi-Fi...
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Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality
Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...
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The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...
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Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture
Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs's office.
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Making Video Games More Fun...for the Audience
Video games need to be redesigned to include audience experience, according to University of Melbourne professor Frank Vetere.
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Replay: New Wizardry Keeps Pinball Rolling in the Internet Age
At the recent Battle at Stonehedge pinball tournament here, Jessie Carduner cursed her ninth-place finish and vowed to get professional help.
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Researchers Advance Artificial Intelligence For Player Goal Prediction in Gaming
New artificial intelligence software that improves the technology's ability to predict player actions in video games could be a key to enhancing player experiences...
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Loneliness Narrows the Uncanny Valley
Talking to inanimate objects when you're feeling lonely may not be so strange after all.
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