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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sing Data Science to nderstand Global Climate Systems
Researchers at the University of Rochester are using data science to understand the phenomena driving the global climate system.
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Scientific Discovery Game Significantly Speeds p Neuroscience Research Process
Mozak is a new scientific discovery game enabling citizen scientists to generate three-dimensional reconstructions of neurons in different regions of human and...
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Scientists Can Blind a Self-Driving Car From Seeing Pedestrians
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to prevent machine-vision systems from seeing specific categories of objects in a scene.
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Organ Donation: A New Frontier For Ai?
Researchers are developing a computerized machine-learning method for better predicting how well a typical organ transplant will proceed.
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Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...
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Every Continent, and One Time Lord, Turned Out For the March For Science
An estimated 600 March for Science rallies took place Saturday across the U.S., and across the globe.
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Why Google's Made With Code Is Helping Women Get Into STEM For Earth Day
This year's "Made with Code" initiative paired women from three non-government agencies with student scientists to address environmental challenges.
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New Developments in av Navigation and Control
Researchers are working on an approach to unmanned air systems and aerial vehicles that does not use global navigation satellite systems .
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Google's New Chip Is a Stepping Stone to Quantum Computing Supremacy
A team of Google researchers by the end of this year plans to build a device that achieves "quantum supremacy."
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Inside China's Plans For World Robot Domination
Scenes from China's quest to dominate the robotic future: At startup E-Deodar, a human-looking droid serves coffee to employees who are building $15,000 industrial...
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Free Quantum Computers Online!
D-Wave and IBM offer access to supercomputing quantum computers in the cloud.
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This Artificial Intelligence Turns Horses Into Zebras--and Winter Into Summer
A new model enables users to transform images in a "cycle consistent" way, so any changes to the original image are expected to remain fully reversible.
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Not Stuck on Silicon
Researchers have developed a new technique they say could reduce the overall cost of wafer technology.
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Why Is Russia So Good at Encouraging Women Into Tech?
Irina Khoroshko, from Zelenograd near Moscow, had learned her times tables by the age of five.
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A Better Understanding of Brain Health at Our (bionic) Fingertips
The European Union-funded NANOBIOTOUCH and NEBIAS projects examined how touch stimuli and neural processing interact cs more intuitive.
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Rechargeable 'spin Battery' Promising For Spintronics and Quantum Computing
Researchers at Purdue University have produced a rechargeable "spin battery" from topological insulators.
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Teaching a Driverless Car to Turn Left
Getting driverless cars to make safe left turns at intersections is a key challenge for engineers, as they involve both psychology and technology.
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Chatbots Have Entered the ncanny Valley
The tendency for people to be repelled by increasingly humanoid and human-like robots may extend to chatbots and digital assistants as well.
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Combating Cancer With Data
Supercomputers will sift massive amounts of data in search of therapies that work.
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