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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More Low-Cost Pcs Are Aimed at Students
BBC’s micro:bit is the latest low-cost computer for education.
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Plan to Synthesize Human Genome Elicits Mixed Response
Proposals for a large public-private initiative to synthesize an entire human genome from scratch—an effort that could take a decade and require billions of dollars...
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A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa
Sidy Ndao aims to advance science, technology, engineering, and math skills in West Africa by organizing events such as the Pan-African Robotics Competition.
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Google nveils 'artificial Creativity'
Google's Magenta artificial intelligence is being challenged to produce original music and other art.
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Child's Play: Australia's Newest Roboticists See Eye-to-Eye With R2-D2
Queensland University of Technology's Christina Chalmers says because the growth of robotic coding requires educators to do more to promote student education in...
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How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel's Tech Industry
Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.
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East Meets West: 'we Are Alfred'
An interactive virtual reality simulation allows users to inhabit the perspective of a 74-year-old man with sensory impairments.
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Games that Teach Coding
A growing number of games seek to introduce the concepts of programming to young players.
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Computer App Whets Children's Appetites For Eco-Friendly Meals
An educational software application is being developed to show middle-school students how their dietary choices affect climate change.
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nveiling the Hidden Layers of Deep Learning
A new method for visualizing the mechanisms and hidden layers of neural networks could provide insights into deep learning.
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The Key to Privacy
40 years ago, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman introduced the public key cryptography used to secure today's online transactions.
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What Happens When Big Data Blunders?
Big data is touted as a cure-all for challenges in business, government, and healthcare, but as disease outbreak predictions show, big data often fails.
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What's Next For Digital Humanities?
New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.
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Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs
Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box.
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A Mathematical Proof Takes 200 Terabytes To State
The latest example of proof by computer enters a new realm: a proof 200 terabytes in size.
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Cybersecurity Sleuths Learn to Think Like Hackers
About 35 high-school students sit at neatly arranged rows of tables in the university's gym. Another 115 college-level contestants surround the high schoolers.
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Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence
In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...
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The Internet's Favorite Website
It's usually idle curiosity that drives me to Wikipedia.
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The Lack of Women in Tech Is More Than a Pipeline Problem
The dearth of women in technology runs much deeper than a simple pipeline problem, writes venture capitalist Swati Mylavarapu.
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