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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35 Innovators nder 35 2015
The selection process for this package begins with hundreds of nominations from the public, MIT Technology Review editors, and our international partners.
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Crash Test Simulations Expose Real Risks
Researchers are developing computer models of vehicle crashes to provide more sophisticated information on how to improve restraints and other safety systems.
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Track Your Heart With Your Phone, Even If Your Phone's in Your Bag
The BioPhone project will derive a person's heart and breathing rates from a smartphone's accelerometer.
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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
On a brisk afternoon in October, an oddly equipped Honda CR-V inched through London traffic.
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Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...
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Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Last month, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square.
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Bringing Iphone-Style Medical Research to the Android World
Weill Cornell Medical College professor Deborah Estrin says the ResearchStack project seeks to introduce an open source software framework similar to ResearchKit...
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Needed: More Women in Data Science
Stanford University brought together about 400 women to discuss data science and promote greater gender diversity in the field.
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.s. Government Lab Dabbles in New Computer Designs
The Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking to replace conventional computer systems by developing and obtaining new computer designs.
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Robot Toddler Learns to Stand By "imagining" How to Do It
The ability of robots to carry out tasks and move about their environment is increasingly impressive, but they still face major challenges.
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Star Wars Characters Will Now Teach Your Kids to Code
In an effort to bring coding to an ever-larger group of kids and students, Code.org partnered with Lucasfilm as part of its annual Hour of Code event.
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Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act
Federal courts have long given the government leeway to surveil and collect so-called "non-content" data—records of the senders and recipients of calls and emails...
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The Gene Hackers
At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T.
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In Memoriam: Gene Amdahl 1922-2015
Gene Amdahl, who formulated Amdahl's Law and worked with IBM and others on developments related to mainframe computing, died Tuesday at the age of 92.
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The 116 Photos Nasa Picked to Explain Our World to Aliens
When Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched into space in 1977, their mission was to explore the outer solar system, and over the following decade, they did so admirably...
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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
Using three-dimensional laser-scanning techniques, two architectural designers are mapping London with an autonomous car to demonstrate its artistic potential.
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A New Slant on Semiconductor Characterization
Northwestern University researchers say they have developed a mathematical method that makes semiconductor characterization more efficient and simpler.
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Researchers Find Way to Create Wide Variety of New Holograms
North Carolina State University researchers have developed techniques that can be used to create ideal geometric phase holograms for any kind of optical pattern...
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Self-Folding Minirobots Possible With Origami-Inspired Graphene
Researchers at Donghua University in China have created a type of graphene paper that can fold itself into a variety of shapes, including a miniature walking robot...
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