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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How To Change Your Past
"Too late" might be the two most tragic words in English, but what if you could rewind the clock?
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Are These the Five Craziest Space Missions?
The landing of the Philae Lander—on a comet travelling at 135,000km/h (84,000mph)—has been hailed as the start of a new chapter in space exploration.
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New Discovery Opens Door For Radical Reduction in Energy Consumed By Digital Devices
University of California, Berkeley researchers say they have made the first direct observation of a phenomenon known as "negative capacitance."
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6 Technologies that Will Change Pcs in 2015
Six disruptive technologies could change the face of computing in 2015.
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Google Boosts ACM's Turing Award Prize to $1 Million
The increase reflects the escalating impact of computing on daily life, through the innovations and technologies it enables.
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Data Brokers Are Watching You
You would be surprised by how much they know about you, and what they are doing with your information.
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
Automated code or bots currently account for 56 percent of all of website visits, and a recent analysis of 20,000 websites found bot traffic can run as high as...
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Smart Transportation Networks Drive Gains
Transportation engineers and city planners are looking to information technology to redefine traffic management in urban areas. With the opportunity, however, comes...
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In Search of Bayesian Inference
Long relegated to the statistical backburner, Bayesian Inference is undergoing a renaissance.
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Big Data Analysis Reveals Gene Sharing in Mice
Scientists have identified at least three cases of cross-species mating in "old world" mice that likely had an impact on their evolutionary paths.
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Better Software Cuts Computer Energy se
The ENTRA project aims to develop tools to help software engineers create energy-efficient code.
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Downing North Korea's Internet Not Much of a Scalp
If someone did just knock North Korea off the Internet for half a day, it wouldn't have taken much.
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Sun Sizzles in High-Energy X-Rays
For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home, capturing...
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The 12 Missions of Christmas
In July 1965, Mariner 4 became the first space probe to send back pictures of another world from space. Fifty years on, not only do several spacecraft orbit the...
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6 Aging Protocols That Could Cripple the Internet
The biggest threat to the Internet is that it evolved over time with various protocols, very few of which were designed with security in mind.
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Switching to Spintronics
Researchers have successfully used an electric field to reverse the magnetization direction in a multiferroic spintronic device at room temperature.
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First Steps For Hector the Robot Stick Insect
Bielefeld University researchers have developed Hector, a robot based on a stick insect that has passive elastic joints and an ultralight exoskeleton.
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In One Aspect of Vision, Computers Catch p to Primate Brain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have found the most recent version of deep neural networks match the primate brain.
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Google Seeks Partners For Self-Driving Car
Google is seeking auto industry partners in its efforts to produce a fully autonomous car.
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