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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Level p: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...
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Concerned About Connected Car Privacy? Bluetooth Sensors Used to Track Traffic
One big promise of the connected car revolution has been the potential to help clear up traffic problems.
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DARPA Calls For Post-Moore Ideas
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Electronics Resurgence Initiative aims to cultivate partnerships and advance progress of post-Moore's Law technologies...
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Opening the Lid on Criminal Sentencing Software
Researchers are using machine learning to train computers to build statistical models that can predict future criminal behavior.
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Who Will Control the Swarm?
Researchers at Stanford University believe future device swarms will operate via centralized management.
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Bikes May Have to Talk to Self-Driving Cars For Safety's Sake
Researchers envision bicycles communicating with autonomous vehicles so the latter can predict cyclists' movements.
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Iarpa Announces Map of the World Challenge For Satellite Imagery
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched the functional Map of the World Challenge.
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The Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry
Machine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the study and understanding of mental illness.
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Hacker-Proof Coding
Software verification helps find the faults, preventing hacks.
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Why Virtual Reality Will Transform a Workplace Near You
A clutch of companies are changing how work gets done---by using virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.
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AI in Contact Centers
Artificial intelligence technologies are being deployed to improve the customer service experience.
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Charles P. 'Chuck' Thacker: 1943-2017
Microsoft researcher Charles P. Thacker, awarded the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award, died Monday, June 12, at the age of 74, after a brief illness.
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Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...
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How Checkers Was Solved
The story of a duel between two men, one who dies, and the nature of the quest to build artificial intelligence.
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From Mars Rover: Panorama Above 'perseverance Valley'
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner slope of a large...
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We Could Build a Galactic Internet but It May Take 300,000 Years
If there are advanced alien civilizations in the Milky Way, we ought to be thinking about how to say hello to our neighbours.
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Robot Physical Therapist Helps People Walk Again After a Stroke
A new smart harness uses artificial intelligence to help people regain their mobility following certain neurological injuries.
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MIT Research Could Make Neural Networks Portable
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing a neural network designed specifically to work on mobile devices.
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Deer Caught in the Headlights? Your Car May Soon See Them
Automakers are working to develop systems that would enable self-driving cars to avoid hitting large animals such as deer.
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