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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High School Students Are All About Computers but Get Little Instruction in Computer Science
There is a significant gap between U.S. high school students' exposure to computer science and their use of computers and technology.
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Russia's Putin Calls the Internet a 'cia Project'
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a CIA project and made comments about Russia's biggest search engine Yandex, sending the company's shares...
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Americans Predict a Future Like Science Fiction
Given the fast-paced changes that happen in technology, predicting the future has become more fun than guessing who will win the Super Bowl or "Dancing With the...
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Virtual Earth Plays Out Fate of Life on the Planet
We can simulate the climate and we can even simulate babies. Now, we can simulate life on Earth, too—the vast and complex interactions of the living organisms on...
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Technology Confounds the Courts
Despite the need to make decisions relevant to technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court is not the most techno-savvy group.
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Alzheimer's and Cancer Link Found
Researchers have determined that Alzheimer's disease and glioblastoma multiform, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, share a pathway in gene transcription...
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Heartbleed Bug Provokes Open Source Soul-Searching
Vulnerability underscored the issue of how projects like OpenSSL should be supported.
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Wikipedia Searches and Sick Tweets Predict Flu Cases
A new algorithm mines data from Wikipedia to track flu cases across the United States.
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The Cloud Industry Needs Aereo to Win. But Consumers Need Something Better.
The best way to think about Aereo, the company at the center of this week's Supreme Court battle over the future of computing, is as an example of legal performance...
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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014
Technology news is full of incremental developments, but few of them are true milestones.
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How America's Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future
Stories set in the future are often judged, as time passes, on whether they come true or not.
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Michigan Man Among 1st in U.s. to Get 'bionic Eye'
A degenerative eye disease slowly robbed Roger Pontz of his vision.
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Listening to the Big Bang
For six months each year, the perennially dark and wind-swept plains of the southern polar ice cap have an average temperature of about 58 degrees Fahrenheit below...
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Code Camp Empowers High School Girls With Computer Science Education
Stanford's Girls Teach Girls To Code program recently hosted more than 200 high school girls on campus for a "Code Camp."
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Researchers se Twitter to Predict Crime
Twitter can be useful for predicting up to 25 kinds of crimes, especially offenses like stalking, thefts, and certain kinds of assault, if the correct analysis...
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Brain-Derived Computing Beyond Von Neumann
In an interview, Heidelberg University professor Karlheinz Meier discusses the emerging field of neuromorphic computing.
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Russia Displays a New Military Prowess in kraine's East
Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Russia of behaving in a "19th-century fashion" because of its annexation of Crimea.
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U.s. Aims to Defuse Tension Over Control of Internet
The U.S. has agreed to give up supervision of the Internet policy-making body that controls domain names, hoping to satisfy countries that want more international...
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Gambling with Computers
Researchers are turning to computers, big data, and sophisticated algorithms to improve the odds of picking a winner.
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