Communications of the ACM
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August 2017
From ACM News
Cosmic Map Reveals a Not-So-Lumpy niverse
Cosmologists have produced the biggest map yet of the Universe's structure and they find it less lumpy than previous surveys have suggested.
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China and the .s. Are Battling to Become the World’s First AI Superpower
"Right now, AI is a two-horse race between China and the US."
From ACM Careers
The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims to Run
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate.
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Barbara Grosz Receives 2017 ACL Life Time Achievement Award
Grosz is Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
From ACM TechNews
An App For the Perfect Selfie
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada say they have developed a smartphone application to help people learn how to take better selfies.
From ACM TechNews
Clarifying Complex Chemical Processes With Quantum Computers
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland say they have demonstrated a concrete example of a future application for quantum computers.
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The Future Takes Flight at Du
Researchers at the University of Denver's Unmanned Systems Research Institute are attempting to improve unmanned aerial vehicle technology.
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Argonne Goes Deep to Crack Cancer Code
Scientists are advancing an exascale computing framework for a deep neural network code designed to tackle key challenges to accelerate cancer research.
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Sneaky Attacks Trick Ais Into Seeing or Hearing What's Not There
A new technique could be used by hackers to trick autonomous cars into ignoring stop signs or prevent surveillance cameras from spotting a suspect.
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Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei For the First Time
Neutrinos are famously antisocial. Of all the characters in the particle physics cast, they are the most reluctant to interact with other particles.
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The Race to Reveal Antimatter's Secrets
In a high-ceilinged hangar at CERN, six rival experiments are racing to understand the nature of one of the Universe's most elusive materials.
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Five Years Ago and 154 Million Miles Away: Touchdown!
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which landed near Mount Sharp five years ago this week, is examining clues on that mountain about long-ago lakes on Mars.
From ACM TechNews
Are the World's Highest Paid Football Players Overpaid? Big Data Says Yes
Researchers have used machine learning and data science to analyze the salaries of 6,082 professional European football (soccer) players.
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How Apps Can Motivate You By Tapping Into Your Personality
Rita Orji at the University of Waterloo in Canada is designing interactive persuasive computer games customized to the player's motivational style.
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Robots Could Act as Ethical Mediators Between Patients and Caregivers
Researchers hypothesize that robots that understand ethical issues would be able to observe interactions between patients and caregivers, and intervene when needed.
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Wsu Physicists Write With Light, Turn Crystal Into an Electrical Circuit
Researchers at Washington State University have developed a method for writing an electrical circuit into a crystal.
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Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields—but how do we make sure it behaves morally?
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New Web Tool Tracks Russian 'influence Ops' on Twitter
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan project backed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), has launched a Web tool to keep tabs on Russia's ongoing efforts to influence public opinion in the United…
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Chip Technology Could Help the Blind, Robots, See
Bio-inspired designs that encode light as time are ushering in systems as efficient as human neurology.
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Crispr Fixes Disease Gene in Viable Human Embryos
An international team of researchers has used CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing—a technique that allows scientists to make precise changes to genomes with relative ease—to correct a disease-causing mutation in dozens of viable human embryos…
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Two Voyagers Taught S How to Listen to Space
As NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft were changing our understanding of the solar system, they also spurred a leap in spacecraft communications.
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Deception Tech Helps to Thwart Hackers' Attacks
In World War II, the Allies employed all kinds of sneaky tricks to deceive their enemies into thinking they had more troops and weapons at their disposal than they actually had.
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Storing Data in Dna Brings Nature Into the Digital niverse
Researchers at the University of Washington currently hold the record for the amount of information stored in and retrieved from DNA molecules.
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How Neural Networks Are Transforming the World of Translation
Imperial College London professor Erol Gelenbe says artificial neural networks can ease language translation by executing a three-step process.
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4d Movies Capture People in Clothing, Creating Realistic Virtual Try-on
ClothCapture is new technology that can digitally capture clothing on moving people, turn it into a three-dimensional digital platform, and dress virtual avatars with it.
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'anonymous' Browsing Data Can Be Easily Exposed, Researchers Reveal
A German journalist and data scientist say they were able to easily obtain the "anonymous" online browsing information of more than 3 million Germans.
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Automatic Image Retouching on Your Phone
Researchers have developed a cellphone-based system that can automatically retouch images.
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Looking to the Future Through the First Autonomous Artificial Iris
Researchers have created an artificial iris that can react to light to the same degree as a human eye.
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These Radio Telescopes See Almost to the Beginning of Time
There are few places in the world that can accommodate a radio telescope.
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kraine Finally Battens Down Its Leaky Cyber Hatches After Attacks
When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine switched jobs to work for President Petro Poroshenko, he found that everyone in the office used the same login password.