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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The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape
Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking are playing poker together.
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10 years of Opportunity: Celebrating the Rover’s Role on Mars and Earth
On January 25, 2004, a strange object fell out of the sky on a distant planet—and when it hit the surface, it started to bounce.
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Tech Workers' Employment Rates Beat the National Average
Overall U.S. unemployment rates, while falling during 2013, were still double the rate for tech workers, according to the latest Tech Employment Snapshot from Dice...
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Are You a Super-Spreader of Disease?
New research could yield insight into monitoring a specific group of disease carriers to identify nascent outbreaks early and help prevent epidemics.
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D-Wave Aims to Beat Any Classical Computer
D-Wave says its D-Wave Two quantum computer's 509-qubit Vesuvius 6 (V6) processor can rival state-of-the-art semiconducting processors.
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Transponder Allows Cars to 'See' Pedestrians
Researchers have developed a method to enable driver-assistance systems in vehicles to identify pedestrians and cyclists even if they are obscured by large obstacles...
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Space Droids Battle to Save Earth From Comet
As part of the Zero Robotics tournament, students across Europe write algorithms to control autonomous satellites that hover around the International Space Station...
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At Super Bowl, Detecting Threats Is Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Imagine this scenario: In the course of an hour this week, four different people involved in Super Bowl setup require emergency medical assistance, all for nausea...
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How a Database of the World's Knowledge Shapes Google's Future
For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years.
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An Open Letter from .s. Researchers in Cryptography and Information Security
Leading members of the U.S. cryptography and information-security research communities express their outrage over U.S. surveillance practices.
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A New Type of Mathematics?
New discoveries expand the scope of computer-assisted proofs of theorems.
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Should Everybody Learn to Code?
Not everyone needs coding skills, but learning how to think like a programmer can be useful in many disciplines.
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ACM Fellows Inducted
ACM has recognized 50 of its members for their contributions to computing that are driving innovations across multiple domains and disciplines.
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Computational Photography Comes Into Focus
Advances in computational photography are making image capture the starting point. The technology is transforming the field.
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The Inside Story of Tor, the Best Internet Anonymity Tool the Government Ever Built
Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents.
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One Day an Elevator Might Ask—are You Getting On?
Microsoft researchers have enabled elevators in a company building to detect the likelihood that a person walking by will want to board it.
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The White House Is Going to Study Big Data. Here Are 5 Things It Should Know
The White House announced via blog post on Thursday that it's forming working group focused on understanding the promises and pitfalls of big data (with a heavy...
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Ford, Stanford, and MIT Research Giving Self-Driving Cars 'intuition'
Ford Motor is working with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to give self-driving cars intuition.
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Neural Nets: Now Available in the Cloud
A new system called N2Sky sets up neural networks in the cloud so their services can be shared like other computing resources.
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