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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Smartphone Apps For Social Good
Mobile apps make it easier, faster, and cheaper to create massive impact on social causes ranging from world hunger to domestic violence.
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Drivers, These Robots Have Your Back
Automated safety systems can prevent an accident before the driver is even aware of the possibility.
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What Happens When Big Data Blunders?
Big data is touted as a cure-all for challenges in business, government, and healthcare, but as disease outbreak predictions show, big data often fails.
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The Broadband Is Coming
The world's fastest residential Internet may be found in the middle of the English countryside, built by farmers for farmers.
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New News Aggregator Apps
How apps like Inkl and SmartNews are overcoming the challenges of aggregation to win over content publishers and users alike.
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Touching the Virtual
Feeling the way across new frontiers at the interface of people and machines.
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Is 'Good Enough' Computing Good Enough?
The energy-accuracy trade-off in approximate computing.
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Online Privacy: Regional Differences
How do the U.S., Europe, and Japan differ in their approaches to data protection — and what are they doing about it?
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Looking and Learning: Image Identification and Enhanced Search
Advances in computer image recognition aspire to provide "a reasonable description in plain English."
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Structural Electronics Come Online
Multifunction components are becoming more common as the world gets "smarter."
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Keeping Online Reviews Honest
As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.
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Atoms Show The Way
A "quantum compass" will offer precise positioning data in places GPS cannot go.
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Robots Compete in Disaster Scenarios
The DARPA Robotics Challenge pitted teams from around the world against each other in a series of disaster-themed tasks.
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Wearable Robots Are No Longer Science Fiction
Exoskeletons will address military, medical, commercial applications.
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