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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Lincoln Laboratory Hosts First 'make Your Own Wearables' Workshop For High-School Girls
Mechanical engineer Kristen Railey, founder of Girls Who Build, recently hosted a pilot workshop for high school girls at a federally funded research and development...
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Optimizing Optimization Algorithms
Optimization algorithms, which try to find the minimum values of mathematical functions, are everywhere in engineering. Among other things, they're used to evaluate...
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10 Cool Network and Computing Research Projects
If you think the latest enterprise and consumer network and computer technologies rolling into your data center and being snuck into your offices by end users are...
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Wpi Awarded $4.4 Million to Help Bolster the Nation's Cybersecurity Workforce
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has been awarded a $4.4-million grant to develop a program to prepare professionals to address cybersecurity challenges and threats...
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Mathematician Tries to Solve Wave Equations
University of California, Los Angeles professor Terence Tao is using computers to help him solve a tricky mathematical question.
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How to Predict Responses to Disease
Researchers have developed a computer model that could help public health officials take steps to limit the dangers of a disease outbreak.
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Celebrations to Commemorate Boole’s 200th Birthday
The creator of Boolean algebra and Boolean logic is remembered.
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Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are For Hire Online
A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website.
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Colleges Rush to Create Cybersecurity Soldiers
The recent increase in computer attacks at major corporations have pushed colleges and universities to educate more cybersecurity students and professionals.
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Tropical Paradise Inspires Virtual Ecology Lab
A paradise on Earth could soon become the first ecosystem in the world to be replicated in digital form in painstaking detail, from the genes of its plants and...
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Pgi Develops a 'virtual Psychiatrist'
Researchers in India have developed an Internet-based application that diagnoses and treats common psychiatric disorders in adults and children.
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Cultures of Code
Computing is a fragmented field, writes Brian Hayes, looking at three professionals who use and develop software on a daily basis, from different perspectives.
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New Stanford Course Brings Silicon Valley to the Humanities Classroom
Stanford University's new Literature and Social Online Learning course brings computer science and humanities students together in one classroom.
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A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.
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Predicting Superbugs' Countermoves to New Drugs
Researchers have developed software that can predict a constantly evolving infectious bacterium's countermoves to new drugs before the drug is tested on patients...
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Brain-Training For Baseball Robot
Researchers in Japan have developed a model of the part of the brain that is responsible for fine motor control.
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'the Imitation Game' Gives Girls a Computer Scientist Role Model
Actress Keira Knightley is providing young women with a role model that could help change the face of computer science and related fields.
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New Discovery Opens Door For Radical Reduction in Energy Consumed By Digital Devices
University of California, Berkeley researchers say they have made the first direct observation of a phenomenon known as "negative capacitance."
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Google Boosts ACM's Turing Award Prize to $1 Million
The increase reflects the escalating impact of computing on daily life, through the innovations and technologies it enables.
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