Communications of the ACM
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June 2017
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Protecting the Smart Grid
Microgrids can provide greater resiliency.
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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
Google's DeepMind has developed a neural network that gives computers the ability to understand how different objects are related to each other.
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A Hybrid of Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Is Spawning New Ventures
Researchers think the field of merging quantum computing with machine learning may soon be ripe for commercialization.
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Safety and Security For Intelligent Infrastructure
Several new white papers describes the challenging threats to safety, security, and privacy via intelligent infrastructure.
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Graphene Transistor Could Mean Computers That Are 1,000 Times Faster
A new graphene-based transistor could someday be used in computers that are 1,000 times faster and use one-100th of the power of conventional computer systems.
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Chatbots Learn How to Negotiate and Drive a Hard Bargain
What's in it for me?
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.s. Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment in Artificial Intelligence
The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to U.S. national security, current and former U.S. officials tell Reuters.
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The 'time Machine' Reconstructing Ancient Venice's Social Networks
Only metres away from the tourist throngs that bustle through Venice's crowded piazzas, the silence inside Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is so profound it hurts the ears.
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Smart Jacket and Vr Headset Let You Pilot a Drone With Your Body
Researchers say they have created a virtual reality headset and jacket system that enables operators to control a drone using only their body movement.
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A School District Is Building a Diy Broadband Network
The Albemarle County, VA, school district is building its own broadband network.
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Hkbu Invention Detects and Alerts Sleepy Drivers
Researchers have developed a system that detects sleepy drivers and alerts them using a smartphone.
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Why It's Important For the Tech Industry to Get More Young Girls Interested in STEM
Jewelbots CEO Sara Chipps says the de-socialization of girls from science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines starts early.
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Mania and the Machine
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati used "genetic fuzzy trees" to generate a 100% accurate predictive model of patient response to lithium.
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Taxonomy Goes Digital: Getting a Handle on Social Bots
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding research on social networks.
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Light-Based Neural Network Does Simple Speech Recognition
While there are lots of things that artificial intelligence can't do yet—science being one of them—neural networks are proving themselves increasingly adept at a huge variety of pattern recognition tasks.
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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
The world is a confusing place, especially for an AI.
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Nustar's First Five Years in Space
Five years ago, on June 13, 2012, Caltech's Fiona Harrison, principal investigator of NASA's NuSTAR mission, watched with her team as their black-hole-spying spacecraft was launched into space aboard a rocket strapped to the …
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The Dark Side of AI
Can Artificial Intelligence be trusted?
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In Memoriam: Charles P. “chuck” Thacker: 1943-2017
Thacker was awarded the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award in recognition of his pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer, and for his contributions to Ethernet and the tablet computer.
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Brain Architecture: Scientists Discover 11 Dimensional Structures That Could Help US Understand How the Brain Works
Scientists studying the brain have discovered that the organ operates on up to 11 different dimensions, creating multiverse-like structures that are "a world we had never imagined."
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.s. Cyberweapons, sed Against Iran and North Korea, Are a Disappointment Against Isis
America's fast-growing ranks of secret cyberwarriors have in recent years blown up nuclear centrifuges in Iran and turned to computer code and electronic warfare to sabotage North Korea's missile launches, with mixed results.
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New System Allows Optical 'deep Learning'
Researchers have developed a new approach to deep-learning computer systems that uses light instead of electricity.
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Smiling During Victory Could Hurt Your Future Chances of Cooperation
People who smile when they are victorious in contests raise the odds of opponents being non-cooperative in subsequent competitions, according to a new study.
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tsa Professor Wins $450,000 Nsf Grant to Develop Artificial Intelligence That Can Detect Computer System Faults
A University of Texas at San Antonio professor has received a $450,000 grant to develop a hardware-based AI system for detecting software bugs and security attacks.
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Embattled German Industrials Pursue the Factory of the Future
The clanking, hulking factory in a rural patch of northwest Germany that produces 22-ton combine harvesters has lately been turning out machines with a technical edge.
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How Big Data Mines Personal Info to Craft Fake News and Manipulate Voters
The opening chords of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" rocked a hotel ballroom in New York City as a nattily dressed British man strode onstage several weeks before last fall's U.S. election.
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Discoveries Fuel Fight Over Universe's First Light
Not long after the Big Bang, all went dark.
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3 Principles For Creating Safer AI
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover?
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Inspecting Algorithms For Bias
Courts, banks, and other institutions are using automated data analysis systems to make decisions about your life. Let's not leave it up to the algorithm makers to decide whether they're doing it appropriately.
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Israel's Quantum Leap
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Quantum Information Science Center has received a $2.1-million government contract to construct a national quantum communications system demonstrator.