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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Adding Smarts to Vending Machines Drives Convenience, Efficiency
Advanced feature sets and functionality are projected to drive the market for connected vending to nearly nine million units by 2024.
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Can AI Demonstrate Creativity?
When fed a sufficient amount of training data, artificial intelligence techniques can be used to generate new ideas in several different ways. Is that creativity...
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Applying the Metaverse
Business, entertainment, and fashion companies already are staking their claims in this enhanced virtual world.
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The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality
A heads-up look at augmented reality head-up displays.
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Technological Responses to COVID-19
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
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Deceiving the Masses on Social Media
The social media platforms like their freedom, but information gerrymandering may require legislation to fix.
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Across the Language Barrier
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
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Tracking Shoppers
Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping...
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Bringing the Internet to the (Developing) World
A growing number of low-cost (and free!) solutions aim to open the Internet to developing regions.
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It's Not the Algorithm, It's the Data
In risk assessment and predictive policing, biased data can yield biased results.
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Battling Algorithmic Bias
How do we ensure algorithms treat us fairly?
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Legal Advice on the Smartphone
New apps help individuals contest traffic, parking tickets.
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Coding as Sport
Programming competitions help identify and reward those who excel in coding.
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Technology Brings Online Education in Line with Campus Programs
Whether sitting in front of a screen or in a classroom, online and campus-based institutions want to verify students actually attend classes, take exams.
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Putting the Data Science Into Journalism
News organizations increasingly use techniques like data mining, Web scraping, and data visualization to uncover information that would be impossible to identify...
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Using Technology to Help People
Companies are creating technological solutions for individuals, then generalizing them to broader populations that need similar assistance.
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Sensors For Seniors
In-home technologies are helping seniors stay aware, healthy, and in touch.
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