Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Proof from 'The Book'
A decades-old conjecture about computational complexity is confirmed in just a few pages.
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Algorithms to Harvest the Wind
Wake steering can help ever-larger turbines work together more efficiently on wind farms.
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Information Is Physics
Individual bits of information can have direct physical consequences.
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Closing In on Quantum Error Correction
Quantum computers will only become practical when they implement quantum error correction.
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I Don't Understand My Car
Self-driving cars will need good communication skills.
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And Then, There Were Three
How long can the silicon foundry sector continue to adapt, as physical limits make further shrinkage virtually impossible?
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Quantum Leap
A new proof supports a 25-year-old claim of the unique power of quantum computing.
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AI, Explain Yourself
It is increasingly important to understand how artificial intelligence comes to a decision.
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AI Holds the Better Hand
Exploiting the techniques of game theory to come up with the superior poker hand.
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Electronics Are Leaving the Plane
Stacking chips and connecting them vertically increases both speed and functionality.
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Chips for Artificial Intelligence
Companies are racing to develop hardware that more directly empowers deep learning.
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"when Performance Is Pursued Above All"
Long-overlooked CPU vulnerabilities have come to light.
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Perovskites Boost Solar-Cell Potential
New materials could allow cheaper, more efficient solar cells for both traditional and novel applications.
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Digital Hearing
Advances in audio processing help separate the conversation from background noise.
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Deep Learning Takes on Translation
Improvements in hardware, the availability of massive amounts of data, and algorithmic upgrades are among the factors supporting better machine translation.
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Pure Randomness Extracted from Two Poor Sources
Developments from several disparate areas of computer science provide "a huge jump, both technically and also quantitatively."
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Surprise Comes Out of Black-Hole Studies: Error-Correcting Codes
Attempts to reconcile quantum information and gravity have yielded new types of error-correcting codes for proposed quantum computers.
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Optical Fibers Getting Full
Exploring ways to push more data through a fiber one-tenth the thickness of the average human hair.
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Silicon Photonics: Ready to Go the Distance?
Processes for making CMOS chips are adapted for optical components.
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