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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Speed Within Reach at Affordable Prices
Supercomputers have reached new power and performance benchmarks while also increasing their availability to businesses in the past year. In June, IBM's Roadrunner...
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10 Microsoft Research Projects
Microsoft is supporting a host of projects in its research and development division that are focused on tackling real-world technical challenges but could haveView...
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Six Ways to Build Robots That Do Humans No Harm
A new book by Yale University ethicist Wendell Wallach and Indiana University professor Colin Allen, titled "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong,"...
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U.S. Agency Sees Robots Replacing Humans in Service Jobs By 2025
The U.S. National Intelligence Council's (NIC's) report, "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World," outlines the military, economic, and environmental challenges...
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Berkeley Lab Team Wins Special ACM Gordon Bell Prize For Algorithm Innovation
ACM's Gordon Bell Prize for special achievement in high performance computing has been won by a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence...
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Multi-Core and Parallel Programming: Is the Sky Falling?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Marc Snir acknowledges that multicore parallelism is difficult, and this difficulty can give rise to divergent...
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It Salaries Take Tiny Leaps
Salaries for information technology (IT) professionals have essentially stalled, reveals Computerworld's 22nd annual Salary Survey. The survey, based on responses...
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User-Centric Services Provisioning in Wireless Environments
To date, services provided for mobile users are still hard to build. Two main challenges need to be considered. The first...
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