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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Cache and Not Carry: Next Mars Rover to Collect Samples For Return to Earth—someday
Have rover, need payload. That's the state of things for NASA, which is planning to launch its next rover to Mars in 2020.
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Scientists se Math--and Computer War Games--to Show How Society Evolved
Researchers have developed mathematical formulas and computer simulations to discover how complex societies evolved.
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Harvard Plans to Boldly Go With 'spocs'
Harvard University is moving beyond massive open online courses to small private online courses.
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Creating Matter That Behaves Like Luke Skywalker’s Light Saber
Scientists have created a new photon-based matter that is essentially like the light sabers in the movie Star Wars.
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Supercomputing Enables Climate Time Machine
Climate models are improving with each generation of supercomputer, enabling more precise predictions of extreme weather events.
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Human Robot Getting Closer
Researchers are implementing the cognitive process of the human brain in robots, which could lead to the development of the latest version of the iCub robot.
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Google Introduces New 'hummingbird' Search Algorithm
Google Inc has overhauled its search algorithm, the foundation of the Internet's dominant search engine, to better cope with the longer, more complex queries it...
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Science Benefits From Diverse Landing Area of Nasa Mars Rover
NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and...
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Why Space Telescope Mirror Is Most Complex Ever Built
"You will not be touching anything."
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Bringing 'common Sense' to Text Analytics
Bringing "common sense" to artificial intelligence is one of the biggest challenges in computer science: It entails equipping computers with the shared knowledge...
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Tuning In to Graphene
New ultra-fast wireless antennas may be on the way, but don't throw away your old wireless router just yet.
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Making the Internet Safe For Gadgets
Initiatives favor direct connections, named resources, and cryptography.
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Software Helps Linguists Reconstruct, Decipher Ancient Languages
Linguists who once spent an entire career reconstructing a major language family now can accomplish that in just a few hours.
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The Alan Turing Year Leaves a Rich Legacy
A year-long celebration of the life and work of a man whom many call the founding father of computer science.
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Stanford Engineers Build First Computer Based on Carbon Nanotube Technology
A team from Stanford University has built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes.
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New Password in a Heartbeat
A new, secure method may dramatically cut the risk that an implanted medical device could be altered remotely without authorization.
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t Arlington Researchers Successfully Test Model For Implant Device Reactions
A NEW computer simulation could improve the treatment of dangerous reactions to medical implants such as stents, catheters, and artificial joints.
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Bold Idea For 'big Data'
Researchers are working to develop a customized, energy-efficient optical network that can feed massive amounts of data into Rice University supercomputers.
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Meet the Machines that Steal Your Phone's Data
The National Security Agency's spying tactics are being intensely scrutinized following the recent leaks of secret documents. However, the NSA isn't the only U.S...
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