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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Competing Agendas Roil Online Content Moderation Efforts
The EU and the U.S. diverge on how they handle online content moderation.
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Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App
The sector, once popular, is searching for applications and users.
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More Details, but Not Enough
Disputed Google research is receiving further scrutiny, despite the company's inaction in open-sourcing its data or source code as promised.
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Mining the Margins to Save Lives
Using artificial intelligence to ensure fewer donated kidneys are discarded, and that food donations make it to those in need via what is fast becoming an Internet...
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Protecting Children's Privacy Online
Assuring youngsters they can use websites without giving away their personal information is not child's play.
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NSF Accelerator is Open For Business
Attempting to harness the National Science Foundation’s 10 Big Ideas.
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On Your Mark. Get Set. Print!
Athletic footwear is about to be customized in the extreme, through a combination of computer vision-enabled scanning and three-dimensional printing.
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Fast Facial Analysis Software Set For Release
The new software could be particularly useful in fields where subjective interpretation has been the norm.
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Fast Facial Analysis Software Set For Release
Researchers say a new facial recognition software package is fast, computationally efficient, and robust enough for state-of-the-art results.
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Bringing Big Data to the Big Tent
Open source tools assist data science.
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That’s Traffic; p Next, Weather
Smartphone apps emerge to support better weather forecasting.
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Agriculture Is Becoming a 'model Citizen'
New tools not only make farmers' calculations more accurate and their lives less labor-intensive, but also portend of better dissemination of data about agriculture’s...
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The Automotive Internet 'road Map' Is Becoming Easier to Read
Announcements herald greater focus on vehicle-based communication.
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Quantum Quests
Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.
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Software on Mars
With the AEGIS system, the Mars Exploration Rovers can autonomously select, capture, and analyze images using onboard logic.
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Atomic-Level Computing
Thanks to the University of New South Wales and IBM Research, scientists are moving closer to the junction of quantum and digital computing.
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Degrees of Separation
Researchers now have the capability to look at the small-world problem from both the traditional algorithmic approach and the new topological approach.12