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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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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Rise of the Swarm
Guided by collective intelligence, teams of small, simple robots could soon accomplish amazing feats.
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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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Using 3D Worlds to Visualize Data
Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars?
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Can You Feel Me Now? The Sensational Rise of Haptic Interfaces
Your first experience with haptics was probably your phone vibrating in your pocket.
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Oscar Sci-Tech Awards Honor Ingenious Screen Science and Engineering
The goal of every movie is for the audience to suspend its collective disbelief and become immersed in the world created on screen.
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Apple and Samsung, Frenemies For Life
It was the late Steve Jobs' worst nightmare. A powerful Asian manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, uses Google Inc's Android software to create smartphones...
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'every New Car' Connected to Web By 2014
Five years ago mobile phones were at the forefront of technology, by 2010 the focus was on tablet computers and now billions of yen, dollars and pounds are being...
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Study Uses Grins and Frowns to Predict Online Game Hits
Researchers at Academia Sinica's Institute of Information Science have developed a method for predicting an online game's success by studying gamers' initial emotional...
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Force-Feedback For Smartphones Tilts Game-Playing Field
Researchers in Germany are working on force-feedback technology with gamers in mind. Called muscle propelled force feedback, the system does not have any motors...
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Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System
The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.
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A Digital Paradise By the Dashboard Light
The driver of the first Corvette, in 1953, was welcomed by a lovely fan of numbers—a sweeping, eye-catching speedometer denominated in 10-mile-per-hour intervals...
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Life in Simulation
Computational models are tackling the complexity of biology, from single-celled microbes to human organs.
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Revving the Rover
The new Mars rover has attracted plenty of attention for its planetary gymnastics, but the big breakthroughs are under the hood.
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A New Model For Healthcare
Computer modeling is radically redefining healthcare and epidemiology by providing new tools for understanding the impact of different intervention strategies.
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Will Smart Machines Create a World Without Work?
They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider...
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IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave
At year's end, IBM selects a new innovation that has the potential to change the world.
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The Algorithms That Automatically Date Medieval Manuscripts
University of Toronto researchers have developed statistical computer techniques for dating historical documents.
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Atari's Bankruptcy: Gen X Bids Pong Farewell
Reading the news that Atari’s U.S. subsidiary is filing for bankruptcy was a little like hearing that Bob Hope died—in that you were surprised to discover he had...
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