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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Stanford 'frankencamera' Platform Available on Nokia N900 Smartphone
Stanford University has released Frankencamera, an open source digital photography software platform that enables users to create imaging applications for use on...
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Researchers Create Sounds of Animated Things Breaking
A delicate wine glass shatters on the floor. A rock is thrown through a window. A child smashes his piggy bank. Dramatic moments like these in an animated movie...
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Did a Speeding Car Just Jump Out of My Cellphone?
Smartphones are getting smarter. Now some new models even offer games or television broadcasts in three dimensions—and you don’t need special glasses to see the...
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This Is the City, 2.0
Augmented reality tours of real monuments, instant visualization of virtual objects on living cityscapes, and user-generated, digital story telling around famous...
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Taking Computer Games Into the Future
Computing experts from the University of Essex, Imperial College, and the University of Bradford are working to make artificial intelligence smarter, which will...
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Artificial Intelligence For Improving Team Sports
Carlos III University of Madrid researchers are developing a system for evaluating sport performance by using artificial intelligence to automatically analyze a...
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Soccer Stars Ranked sing Statistics
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a computer program that objectively measures player performance; the research method also could be used...
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A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Lines of C++ Code
The final of the Rendering Algorithms class at the University of California, San Diego, has become a friendly competition among students, who apply what they've...
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Building the Lego niverse Online
Lego Universe, the online computer game scheduled for release in October, marks the legendary company's first foray into massively multiplayer gaming, and for...
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A Decade Later, Internet Appliance Dream Is Realized
Ten years ago, the next big thing in tech was supposed to be the Internet appliance: a device that offered tech newbies a simpler and cheaper way to get onto the...
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Study Explains the Aerodynamics of Soccer
With the attention of sports fans worldwide focused on South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup, U.S. scientist John Eric Goff has made the aerodynamics of the...
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Quantifying Human Behavior With Motion-Capture Technology
The University of Southern California is using improvisation and motion-capture technology to study expressive human behavior "to be able to build technologies...
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Star Pitchers in a Duel? Tickets Will Cost More
When the San Francisco Giants noticed a sudden surge in ticket sales for the team’s Memorial Day game with the Colorado Rockies, they did something seemingly more...
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How a Computer Program Became Classical Music's Hot, New Composer
University of California, Santa Cruz professor David Cope has developed Emily Howell, a music-composing program that generates its own compositions by following...
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Trumping the Trumpets: How Audio Engineering Helps Tone Down Vuvuzela Disruption
A new filter will enable soccer fans watching the 2010 World Cup online to remove the sounds of vuvuzelas playing in South Africa's stadiums.
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Robocup 2010: Could Robot Versus Human Be Far Behind?
The goal of the RoboCup 2010 competition in Singapore is to advance the real-world applications of robotics and eventually to build a robot team that can beat the...
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Visions of the Future
ACM joined forces with the British Computer Society to deliver its first academic research conference in Europe.
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Eric Brewer: Change Agent
Eric Brewer's latest project involves designing and deploying low-cost wireless infrastructure in developing regions.
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Mainstreaming Augmented Reality
Advancements in computer vision, object recognition, and related technologies are leading to new levels of sophistication in augmented-reality applications and...
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