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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iPlant: It's Not Just for Plants Anymore!
The iPlant Collaborative, which helps biologists leverage data sets and computational techniques, now serves the animal agricultural community with iAnimal.
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Revolutionizing Tornado Prediction
Researchers are developing a tornado modeling and simulation system that aims to explain why some storms generate tornadoes, while others do not.
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The Rise of Big Data
Big data is transforming the way people experience the world and enabling them to learn things that in the past would have been impossible.
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Vanishing Electronics
Engineers are reinventing electronics by building safe devices that dissolve in the body or within the environment. The technology could redefine everything from...
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'Small Data' Enabled Prediction of Obama's Win, Say Economists
"Big data" from crowdsourcing resulted in more complex predictions.
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Rock Snot Genomics
Researchers are using the Ranger supercomputer to analyze diatom DNA data to help them understand what the diatom's original ancestor might have looked like.
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Battery Backups Can Lower Datacenter Energy Costs
Researchers at Penn State say that datacenters can cut up to 40 percent off their energy costs by provisioning UPS battery backup devices to meet peak energy requirements...
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Q&a: Hacker Culture, Coding, and Free Speech
Anthropologist E. Gabriella Coleman, author of Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, is fascinated by hacker culture, and with its notion that software...
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Developing New Information Services More Quickly
Researchers have designed a new service-engineering platform to help accelerate the development of information technology services.
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The Grooviest Words of Medieval Times
New software is determining the dates of British documents from approximately 1066 to the 1400s, based on popular words or phrases they contain.
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c San Diego Team Achieves Petaflop-Level Earthquake Simulations on Gpu-Powered Supercomputers
A new highly scalable software can dramatically cut both research times and energy costs in simulating seismic hazards.
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Nsf-Supported Stampede Opens the Gates of Advanced Computation to Thousands of Research Teams
The U.S. National Science Foundation's Stampede supercomputer is the most powerful within the NSF Extreme Digital environment.
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Looking Back at Big Data
As computational tools open up new ways of understanding history, historians and computer scientists are working together to explore the possibilities.
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The Future of Ion Traps
Researchers say ion-trap technology could be a scalable option for quantum information processing.
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Linux-Savvy It Pros Are in High Demand, Low Supply
A new survey finds that businesses and government agencies are aggressively seeking to hire IT professionals with Linux skills.
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Cybercrime: It's Serious, But Exactly How Serious?
Symantec says $110 billion annually while McAfee says $1 trillion. Why can't anyone agree?
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Decoding Dementia
Computer models may help neurologists unlock the secrets of brain disorders, from Alzheimer's to cancer.
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New Global Research Data Alliance Poised For Launch
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A System That Improves the Precision of Gps in Cities By 90 Percent
Carlos III University of Madrid researchers have developed a system that improves GPS accuracy by up to 90 percent.
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