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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Sensing Emotions
How computer systems detect the internal emotional states of users.
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Will Barbie Pass the Turing Test?
Startups are beginning to empower toys with child-friendly speech recognition technology.
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The New Smart Cities
How urban information systems are slowly revamping the modern metropolis.
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Robots With a Human Touch
Empowering smart machines with tactile feedback could lead to tremendous new applications.
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Translation By Technology
A switch to machine learning techniques has led to steady improvements in automated translation.
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Next in Live Entertainment: Watching People Code
Streaming video of developers as they code is gaining a growing audience.
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Hacking the Hill
A growing number of organizations think technology holds the potential to improve the efficiency of government.
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Intelligent Living
After years of false starts, the smart home is gaining momentum.
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The New Digital Medicine
Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.
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Printing Houses on the Moon
How do you create structures on other worlds when the expense of carrying building materials there is so great?
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Wearables For Animals
Wearable technologies help pet and livestock owners know their animals better than ever before.
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Modifying Behavior with Wearable Technologies
Created to monitor individuals’ activities, feedback from wearable technologies can help users learn from mistakes and behave better.
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New Models in Cosmetics Replacing Animal Testing
A European law spurs scientists to develop computational simulations capable of predicting the toxicity of cosmetics.
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Future-Proof Encryption
Researchers are relying on quantum mechanics to generate unhackable methods of communication.
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The Future Is Flexible Displays
Manufacturers hint that bendable screens are coming soon, but academics argue that many engineering challenges remain.
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Rise of the Swarm
Guided by collective intelligence, teams of small, simple robots could soon accomplish amazing feats.
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Beyond Hadoop
The leading open source system for processing big data continues to evolve, but new approaches with added features are on the rise.
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Redesigning the Data Center
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.12