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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Researchers Teaching Robots to Feel and React to Pain
Researchers are developing an "artificial robot nervous system to teach robots how to feel pain" and quickly react in order to avoid potential damage.
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1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...
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Games that Teach Coding
A growing number of games seek to introduce the concepts of programming to young players.
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This Robot ses Machine Learning to Take Care of Absent-Minded Humans
The Watch-bot robot can independently learn a user's household activity patterns to provide helpful reminders.
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Computer App Whets Children's Appetites For Eco-Friendly Meals
An educational software application is being developed to show middle-school students how their dietary choices affect climate change.
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Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do
The Generalized Friendship Paradox stipulates that on average, a person's friends post more material and are more influential on social networks than they are.
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China's Scary Lesson to the World: Censoring the Internet Works.
First there was the Berlin Wall. Now there is the Great Firewall of China, not a physical barrier preventing people from leaving, but a virtual one, preventing...
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The Oracle-Google Case Will Decide the Future of Software
The legal battle between Oracle and Google is about to come to an end, and nothing less is as stake than the future of programming.
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nveiling the Hidden Layers of Deep Learning
A new method for visualizing the mechanisms and hidden layers of neural networks could provide insights into deep learning.
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Big Data, Better Health Care
A team of physicians and computer scientists is using merged electronic health records to improve care and outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease. ...
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The Key to Privacy
40 years ago, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman introduced the public key cryptography used to secure today's online transactions.
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What's Next For Digital Humanities?
New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.
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How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
University of Louisville researchers are studying how malevolent artificial intelligenes might be designed, and the conditions in which they might be create.
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Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing control algorithms that enable small-scale autonomous cars to race around dirt tracks at high...
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Dronebuster Will Let You Point and Shoot Command Hacks at Pesky Drones
Anti-drone technology has been high on the shopping list of public safety and military organizations at least since a drunken federal employee crashed a drone onto...
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China Quietly Targets .s. Tech Companies in Security Reviews
Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential...
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Scan Your Doodles to Find the Perfect Matching Photo Online
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed software that can scan hand-drawn sketches and search for a photograph that looks like them. ...
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Mobile Apps and Games Are Also Energy Thieves
Linkoping University's Ekhiotz Jon Vergara has determined the energy consumption of apps on smartphones depends the amount of data transmitted and how it is sent...
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Shape-Shifting Modular Interactive Device nveiled
Cubimorph is a newly developed interactive mobile device that can change shape on demand.
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