Communications of the ACM
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July 2016
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The Toughest Spaceship We've Ever Built
It's been a long time since anyone tried landing on Venus,
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Nasa Rover's Sand-Dune Studies Yield Surprise
Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about the atmosphere's history.
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This Robot Follows You Around and Blasts You With Air Conditioning
More efficient air conditioning via a mobile robot is a goal of researchers at the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Energy Engineering.
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New Framework ses Patterns to Predict Terrorist Behavior
Binghamton University researchers have developed a framework that can predict future terrorist attacks by recognizing patterns in past attacks.
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A Bug in Fmri Software Could Invalidate 15 Years of Brain Research
The past 15 years of human brain research could be invalidated by a recently discovered bug in functional magnetic resonance imaging software.
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Grade-School Students Teach a Robot to Help Themselves Learn Geometry
Researchers say they have developed educational technology, incorporating teachable agent framing coupled with a physical robotic agent, that could better engage students.
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The Fully Self-Driving Car Is Still Years Away
The arrival of fully autonomous automobiles is complicated by the debate over how much self-supervision should be allowed.
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Tackling Intractable Computing Problems
Princeton University researchers used a $10-million U.S. National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing award to find the sources of intractability.
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Iot Transforming Taiwan's Tech Sector
As desktop and laptop computer sales recede, hardware-proud Taiwan searches for new directions in the Internet of Things.
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The Juno Spacecraft Reaches Jupiter
NASA has a habit of scheduling high-stakes maneuvers to coincide with patriotic holidays.
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se Your Eyes, Voice—and Thoughts—to Replace Passwords
I'm sitting in an office at the University of California, Berkeley with an electrode strapped to my head. A black headband holds a connector to my forehead and presses another to my earlobe, beaming my brain's electric signals…
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Engineers to se Cyborg Insects as Biorobotic Sensing Machines
Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are developing a method to detect the smell of chemicals used in explosives.
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Researchers Develop Method to Map Cancer Progression
Researchers at New York University have developed a computational method to map cancer progression.
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Artificial Intelligence Plus Common Sense
Austrian researchers are working to advance the development of artificial intelligence and equip robots with common sense.
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How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin's Civil War
A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting just blocks from Tiananmen Square.
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At Stanford, Experts Explore Artificial Intelligence's Social Benefits
A four-hour-long discussion at Stanford University recently focused on "The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Topics and Societal Benefit."
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Legal Advice on the Smartphone
New apps help individuals contest traffic, parking tickets.
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Graph Matching in Theory and Practice
A theoretical breakthrough in graph isomorphism excites complexity experts, but will it lead to any practical improvements?
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Accelerating Search
The latest in machine learning helps high-energy physicists handle the enormous amounts of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider.
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Booming Enrollments
The Computing Research Association works to quantify the extent, and causes, of a jump in undergraduate computer science enrollments.