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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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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Gaining Wisdom from Crowds
Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.
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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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Filling Space With Polyhedra
Salvatore Torquato’s unique space-packing method has implications in information theory and materials science.
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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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Sorting Through Photos
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.
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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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New Search Challenges and Opportunities
If search engines can extract more meaning from text and better understand what people are looking for, the Web's resources could be accessed more effectively.12