Communications of the ACM
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February 2017
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Tech vs. Trump War Over Immigration Intensifies
Shortly after his election victory, Donald Trump assembled executives from tech giants including Amazon, Apple and Google for a meeting at Trump Tower meant to mend fences with the industry, pledging: "We're going to be there…
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Identify Effective Cancer Drug Combinations
Researchers at Cornell University have found artificial intelligence can help scientists predict what combinations of existing drugs could combat different types of cancer.
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Researchers From the Ugr Develop a New Software Which Adapts Medical Technology to See the Interior of a Sculpture
Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain have developed software that adapts conventional medical technology, enabling it to analyze the interior of sculptures.
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China Claims Supercomputer Powers Surpasses U.s., Europe
The processing power of China's Tianhe supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin exceeds that of its U.S. and European counterparts, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
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Computing Conference to Celebrate 50 Years of Turing Award
ACM has announced it will celebrate 50 years of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," with a high-profile conference to be held June 23-24 in San Francisco.
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Volunteers Archive Government Data, Worry Trump Administration Could Cut Access
Volunteers are working to archive public databases hosted by U.S. government agencies because they are worried access to the data could be cut off by the Trump administration.
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Complex 3D Data on All Devices
A new Web-based software platform supports three-dimensional data visualization on any connected device, optimizing the use of virtual reality in industry.
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China's Intelligent Weaponry Gets Smarter
Robert O. Work, the veteran defense official retained as deputy secretary by President Trump, calls them his "A.I. dudes."
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Cosmic Test Backs 'quantum Spookiness'
A version of an iconic experiment to confirm quantum theory has for the first time used the light of distant stars to bolster the case for a phenomenon that Albert Einstein referred to as "spooky action at a distance".
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Could Your Robot Go to Work Instead of You?
Getting yourself out of bed and into work can feel like one of the toughest parts of the day.
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Paralyzed Patients Communicate Thoughts Via Brain-Computer Interface
A new noninvasive brain-computer interface has enabled researchers in the U.K. to communicate with patients who are totally paralyzed and unable to talk.
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Wearable AI System Can Detect a Conversation's Tone
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that utilizes a wearable device and artificial intelligence to detect whether the tone of a conversation is happy, sad, or neutral.
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Atlanta Falcons to Win Super Bowl, Says Pitt Researcher
The Atlanta Falcons will defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 51, according to University of Pittsburgh researchers.
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Holograms From Sci-Fi Movies May Soon Become Reality
Researchers say they have developed a device that could generate the highest-quality holographic images ever produced and may lead to imaging technologies similar to those seen in science fiction films.
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Israeli Scientist Wins Japan Prize For Cryptography Work
Adi Shamir, a professor at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, is one of three winners of the 2017 Japan Prize.
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Federal Workers Turn to Encryption to Thwart Trump
Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking for other, protected ways to push back against the new administration's…
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niverse Neither Confirms Nor Denies Its Holographic Nature
Cosmology is a funny kind of science.
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Pollsters' Failures Signal Need For Changes
For opinion researchers, the unexpected outcomes of the Brexit vote and the U.S. presidential election signals it is time to reassess the kinds of data they gather and how they analyze and present it.
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Um Researchers Awarded For Using Big Data in Medical Studies
The University of Michigan is receiving $3 million in funding from the Michigan Institute for Data Sciences to support three projects that will address issues in health and genetics using big data techniques.
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Researchers Develop Wearable, Low-Cost Sensor to Measure Skin Hydration
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a wearable, wireless sensor that can monitor a person's skin hydration.
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Army, Industry Computer Scientists Gather For 'hackathon'
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NSCTA) recently held the first hackathon at the Adelphi Laboratory Center in Maryland.
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Iu, Nswc Crane Partnering to Bolster National Defense Through 'smart Tech' Agreement
Indiana University and the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, have entered into a collaborative research agreement to improve military sensor technology.
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In Not-Too-Distant Future, Brain Hackers Could Steal Your Deepest Secrets
In the beginning, people hacked phones.
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It's Never 'groundhog Day' at Jupiter
NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 4:57 a.m. PST (7:57 a.m. EST, 12:57 UTC).
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Astronomers Explore Uses For AI-Generated Images
Volcanoes, monasteries, birds, thistles: the varied images in Jeff Clune's research paper could be his holiday snaps.
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Trump Immigration Halt Casts Dark Cloud Over Next Ietf Gathering
The Internet Engineering Task Force's March meeting in Chicago could have a significantly reduced turnout because of the Trump administration's ban on admission into the U.S. of residents of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,…
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Computer Diagnoses Cataracts as Well as Eye Doctors Can
Scientists at Sun Yat-Sen University in China are using a new artificial neural network to recognize and diagnose congenital cataracts as accurately as eye doctors.
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NCSES Publishes Latest Women, Minorities, and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering Report
The U.S. National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics has published a report quantifying the underrepresentation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering…
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A New Approach to 3D Holographic Displays Greatly Improves the Image Quality
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology say they have developed a three-dimensional holographic display whose performance tops that of existing displays.
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Intelligence Agency Opens $325,000 Advanced, Automated Fingerprint Gathering Competition
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's newest contest challenges participants to build an automated fingerprint collection system that matches the performance of human operators.