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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Larry Page on Google's Many Arms
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.
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E-Voting Experiments End in Norway Amid Security Fears
Norway is ending trials of e-voting systems used in national and local elections.
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How to Make Smart Watches Not Worth Stealing
A prototype device can identify someone by measuring the electrical resistance of tissues within the person's wrist.
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Computer Spots Rare Diseases in Family Photos
New software can learn to identify rare medical conditions by analyzing a face in a digital photograph.
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Collaborative Learning--For Robots
A new algorithm enables independent agents to collaborate on a machine-learning model without aggregating data.
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Riken's K Computer Tops 2014 Supercomputer Rankings
The K computer at Japan's RIKEN institute took the top spot in the 2014 Graph 500 supercomputer rankings.
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Goosebump Sensor Developed By Korean Research Team
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology researchers have developed a sensor that can measure goosebumps on the human body in real time.
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Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Exploring Saturn
It has been a decade since a robotic traveler from Earth first soared over rings of ice and fired its engine to fall forever into the embrace of Saturn.
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Searching For Answers in Very Old Dna
As he puts it in the subtitle of his memoir, "Neanderthal Man," Svante Paabo goes in search of lost genomes.
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How Isis Is Winning the Online War For Iraq
As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) claimed control of Iraq's biggest oil refinery and akey border crossing between Iraq and Jordan—it lost a key...
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Holographic Projection Systems Provide Eternal Life
Optical tricks help deceased entertainers keep on performing.
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Robots Compete in Disaster Scenarios
The DARPA Robotics Challenge pitted teams from around the world against each other in a series of disaster-themed tasks.
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Big Data Meets Big Science
Next-generation scientific instruments are forcing researchers to question the limits of massively parallel computing.
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niversity of Oklahoma Students Develop App That Puts Weather Knowledge on Children's Radar
Elementary and middle-school students will be able to recognize and understand severe weather thanks to a new gaming app.
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Science Dmz: Faster, More Secure High-Performance Computing
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service is planning to award a contract for the construction of a Science DMZ network.
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Internet Traffic Congestion Real, But Sporadic, Study Says
A new study suggests Internet congestion can be a problem, but it is often intermittent and temporary.
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Insect-Inspired Sensors Improve Tiny Robot’s Flight
RoboBee is a tiny flying robot with a self-stabilizing feature inspired by the light-sensing organs of insects.
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Google's Sundar Pichai Is the Most Powerful Man in Mobile
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.
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