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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Software Teaches Hybrids When (and When Not) to Go Electric
Chalmers University of Technology Ph.D. Viktor Larsson's doctoral dissertation describes software that would help hybrid vehicles optimize battery usage.
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Mit Figures Out How to Give the Moon Broadband--Using Lasers
Researchers have developed a system that can give a satellite orbiting the moon faster Internet access than many U.S. homes get.
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Campaigns Emerge to Attract More Women to Careers in It
Nonprofit associations, academic organizations, and major corporations are launching efforts to attract more women to the information technology field.
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Artificial Brains Learn to Adapt
Researchers are studying a new type of spiking neural network that more closely mimics the behavioral learning processes of mammalian brains.
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The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World
Some algorithms shape and control our world more than others — and these 10 are the most significant.
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Swarm and Fuzzy
When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting.
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Microbes Defy Rules of Dna Code
The instructions encoded into DNA are thought to follow a universal set of rules across all domains of life. But researchers report today in Science1 that organisms...
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B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s
The B-52 bomber, one of the great stalwarts of America's military arsenal, is getting its first major communications system upgrade since the Kennedy administration...
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The Trouble With IBM
In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA.
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Tracking Lost Luggage Part of At&t's Vision of the Future
AT&T has demonstrated its User-Defined Network Cloud and other innovative technologies that could soon be available.
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Despite Data Thefts, the Password Endures
Efforts to replace passwords with better protections face an uphill battle.
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Employers Want Java Skills More Than Anything Else
Java/J2EE was the most in-demand software development skill for employers searching Dice.com in the first quarter of 2014, according to the company.
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Europe Wants a Supercomputer Made From Smartphones
A European public-private consortium aims to make exaflop supercomputers based on the central-processing units used in smartphones and tablet computers.
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Robots Transform Into Furniture at Epfl
Roombots are small robotic modules that can change their shape to create reconfigurable furniture.
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How the .s. Could Escalate Its Name-and-Shame Campaign Against China's Espionage
Earlier this week the U.S. Department of Justice indicted five Chinese military officers for industrial espionage, accusing them of leading attacks on the computers...
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'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?
The robot tank is moving rapidly through the scrub on its caterpillar tracks.
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Twenty Questions For Donald Knuth
To celebrate the publication of the eBooks of The Art of Computer Programming, (TAOCP), we asked several computer scientists, contemporaries, colleagues, and well...
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Electric Grid, You Have Software pdates Available
The electric grid was designed as a one-way highway, with power cascading out from big power plants to cities and towns at the end of the line.
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