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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Diagnosis For Healthcare.gov: nrealistic Technology Expectations
The fiasco with the $600 million federal health insurance website wasn't all bureaucratic.
From ACM TechNews
Quantum Light Harvesting Hints at Entirely New Form of Computing
The classical and quantum processes used by plants and bacteria to efficiently harvest light could have a transformative effect on computing.
From ACM TechNews
The Online Dating Engine That Assesses Your Taste in the Opposite Sex (and Whether They Find You Attractive)
A new dating recommendation engine suggests potential dates based not only on mutual interests, but also on a person's likelihood to reply to initial contact.
From ACM Opinion
Three Questions For Computing Pioneer Carver Mead
Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore's Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it's held true in the decades since.
From ACM TechNews
The Secret Ingredient in Computational Creativity
IBM computer scientists are using big data on the Watson supercomputer to produce cooking results that could be called creative.
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Stores Sniff Out Smartphones to Follow Shoppers
You've just tossed a jar of peanut butter in your grocery cart when your smartphone buzzes.
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Ads Could Soon Know If You're an Introvert (on Twitter)
Trying to derive a person's wants and needs—conscious or otherwise—from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds.
From ACM TechNews
Can Automated Editorial Tools Help Wikipedia's Declining Volunteer Workforce?
University College Dublin researchers have developed an algorithm that assesses the quality of Wikipedia pages based on the authoritativeness of the editors involved...
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The Clever Circuit That Doubles Bandwidth
A startup spun out of Stanford says it has solved an age-old problem in radio communications with a new circuit and algorithm that allow data to be sent and received...
From ACM Opinion
Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think
A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and...
From ACM TechNews
Noise Pollution Maps Crowdsourced From Smartphone Data
Researchers say they have developed an improved method of creating noise pollution maps that uses crowdsourced smartphone data.
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The Secrets of Online Money Laundering
Money laundering is increasingly becoming a cybercrime.
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Graphics Chips Help Process Big Data Sets in Milliseconds
New software can use the graphics processors found on everyday computers to process torrents of data more quickly than is normally possible, opening up new ways...
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Tweets Have Become Shorter Since 2009, Say Computer Scientists
Twitter users are communicating with fewer and shorter words, researchers have found.
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Some Robots Are Starting to Move More Like Humans
Robots usually look rigid and nonhuman, with joints engineered to avoid the elasticity that can make their movements less predictable and harder to control.
From ACM TechNews
Internet Archaeologists Reconstruct Lost Web Pages
Researchers recently embarked on an effort to reconstruct deleted social media posts and resources, in part from the clues they leave behind on the web.
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In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches
The age of wearable computing is upon us.
From ACM TechNews
Encrypted Heartbeats Keep Hackers from Medical Implants
Rice University researchers have found a solution to the potential for hacking an implanted defibrillator.
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Academics Launch Fake Social Network to Get an Inside Look at Chinese Censorship
Harvard University professor Gary King this year launched a social media site to gain firsthand experience of online censorship in China.
From ACM Opinion