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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Catching the Fakes
Applying neural networks to images helps identify counterfeit goods.
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A New Movement in Seismology
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.
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The Key to Privacy
40 years ago, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman introduced the public key cryptography used to secure today's online transactions.
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Forging Relationships
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.
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Plenty of Proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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Visualizing Sound
New techniques capture speech by looking for the vibrations it causes.
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It Certifications Pay Off, If Chosen Wisely
The proper certification can help you get a job, a raise, and sometimes a promotion.
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Playing at Health
Developers try to tap the beneficial effects of video games.
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How Can Computing Become More Accessible?
A growing number of tools and strategies are available to make computers and digital content accessible to people with disabilities.
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Decoding Dementia
Computer models may help neurologists unlock the secrets of brain disorders, from Alzheimer's to cancer.
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Life in Simulation
Computational models are tackling the complexity of biology, from single-celled microbes to human organs.
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Stopping the Leaks
Side channels give out information that can be used to crack secrets, but researchers are identifying the holes and trying to close them.
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Digging For Drug Facts
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.
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Automating Scientific Discovery
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.
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Better Medicine Through Machine Learning
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.
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Remaking American Medicine
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Twitter as Medium and Message
Researchers are mining Twitter's vast flow of data to measure public sentiment, follow political activity, and detect earthquakes and flu outbreaks.
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Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
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