Communications of the ACM
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September 2017
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Asu Researcher Works to Design Algorithms For More Robust Networks
Researchers at Arizona State University say they are trying to design effective intervention strategies and algorithms when networks are likely to fail.
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Microsoft and Cornell Tech Announce New Partnership
Microsoft is partnering with the Cornell Tech-based Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts.
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How to Make Robots That We Can Trust
The design of trustworthy autonomous systems must entail consideration of the ability to explain decisions and recourse options when things go awry.
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The Effectiveness of Coding Camps
Do coding schools really get you working faster, with better pay, than college computer science courses?
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How Apple Finally Made Siri Sound More Human
The first time Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person.
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Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype
There's something not quite right about humanoid robots.
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Why John Deere Just Spent $305 Million on a Lettuce-Farming Robot
Tractor giant John Deere just spent $305 million to acquire Blue River Technology, a startup that makes robots capable of identifying unwanted plants and shooting them with deadly, high-precision squirts of herbicide.
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Plot a Course Through the Genome
Chromatin does much more than just keep DNA neat and tidy.
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Jupiter's Aurora Presents a Powerful Mystery
Scientists on NASA''s Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter's polar regions that contribute to the giant planet's powerful aurora—only not in ways the researchers expected.
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Fear of Robots Taking Jobs Spurs a Bold Idea: Guaranteed Pay
Driverless trucks. Factory robots. Delivery drones. Virtual personal assistants.
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Supercomputers Take Big Green Leap in 2017
The most environmentally-friendly supercomputers more than doubled their energy efficiency in 2017.
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Most Tv Computer Scientists Are Still White Men. Google Wants to Change That
Google is urging Hollywood to diversify the gender and ethnicity of computer scientists appearing on TV and film.
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Neuroscientist Harnesses the Power of Virtual Reality to nlock the Mysteries of Memory
Researchers are using virtual reality to study how a person's brain encodes and retrieves memories while they explore a new virtual environment.
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Artificial Intelligence Cyberattacks Are Coming--but What Does That Mean?
Artificial intelligence could play a key role in the next major cyberattack.
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Flip-Flop Qubits: Radical New Quantum Design Invented
Researchers have created a new quantum computing architecture based on "flip-flop quantum bits (qubits)."
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Google's New Street View Cameras Will Help Algorithms Index the Real World
Steve Silverman helped build cameras for two NASA rovers that went to Mars.
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The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera
We all know the drill. For the last decade, smartphones have gotten thinner and faster and thinner and faster and, well, you get the picture.
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Can AI Solve Poverty?
Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to gain insights into factors that lead to poverty and other social problems.
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Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype
Researchers at Facebook's Artificial Intelligence lab have developed an expressive animated bot controlled by an artificially intelligent algorithm trained on hundreds of Skype conversations.
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nlocking Wind's Potential: Supercomputing's Grand Challenge
Supercomputing-led scientific advances could halve the cost of wind energy by 2030.
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Ames Laboratory Scientists Move Graphene Closer to Transistor Applications
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have successfully manipulated the electronic structure of graphene.
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Eu Drafting Rules to Protect Technology From Foreign Takeovers
Law might follow German rules that let Berlin veto takeover.
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What the Industrial Revolution Really Tells S About the Future of Automation and Work
The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will be better in a couple hundred years?
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Why a 24-Year-Old chipmaker Is One Of tech's Hot Prospects
Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy.
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Calhoun Who? Yale Drops Name of Slavery Advocate For Computer Pioneer
Yale University's Calhoun College today will be dedicated as Hopper College, after Grace Murray Hopper.
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How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
The views of Oren Etzioni, chief executive of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
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Putin: Leader in Artificial Intelligence Will Rule World
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world.
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Humans, Cover Your Mouths: Lip Reading Bots in the Wild
A new algorithm has outperformed professional human lip readers.
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What James Damore Got Wrong About Gender Bias in Computer Science
Several experts rebut a former Google employee's conceit that innate biological differences underlie female software engineers' underrepresentation in the tech industry.
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Professor, Experts Aim to Improve Emergency Response
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a system to improve the transmission of critical information for emergency responders.