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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Computer Science Enrollments Rebound, p 10% Last Fall
Computer science enrollments increased for the third consecutive year at Ph.D.-granting institutions, are up 10 percent from a year ago, but are still below the...
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.s. Lagging in sing Technology, Study Shows
The World Economic Forum's annual study on national computing and communications technology use found that the United States ranked fifth out of 138 countries for...
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Students Turn Cell Phone Into Mobile Microscope
Students at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Central Florida have developed a way to turn smartphones into virtual microscopes that can...
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High-Performance Computing Cluster Will Aid Research
Temple University has a new high-performance computer cluster comprised of more than 100 nodes that will significantly enhance the high-speed computing capabilities...
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Augmented Reality Interface Exploits Human Nervous System
The most important function of the brain is figuring out what to ignore: Research suggests that we can process only about one percent of the visual information...
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Google Manager: Technology Needs to Attract More Women
The technology industry needs to do more to bring women into the field, according to Google's Marissa Mayer. Speaking during a recent conference, Mayer said girls...
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Moshe Y. Vardi, 2011 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award Recipient
"For fundamental and lasting contributions to the development of logic as a unifying foundational framework and a tool for modeling computational systems."
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More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality
Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London...
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Promoting Science, and Google, to Students
Google is synonymous with "search engine," and now, for students, it wants to be synonymous with "science."
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Kaashoek Wins Acm's Prize For Young Researchers
Frans Kaashoek, a professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and associate director of the Computer Science and Artificial...
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China 'to Overtake .s. on Science' in Two Years
China is on course to overtake the U.S. in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013—far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by...
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Academics to 'embrace Wikipedia'
Students and academics at a world-leading London university want to build bridges between the Wikipedia website and formal research.
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E-Textbooks Get a Lift From Publishers
Over the years, publishers have tried a variety of strategies to sell digital textbooks but with limited success. Two major publishers, Pearson and McGraw-Hill,...
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British Computer Scientists Reboot
After a year of turmoil, computer scientists at King's College London have retained their jobs, but substantial challenges lie ahead.
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Social Games, Virtual Goods
The popularity of virtual goods and currencies in online gaming is changing how people think and act about money.
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Engineering Sensation in Artificial Limbs
Advancements in mobile electronics have led to several prosthetics innovations in recent years, but providing reliable touch sensations to users remains an elusive...
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2010 Visualization Challenge
An "ocean" composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video...
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Psych-Out Sexism
The innocent, unconscious bias that discourages girls from math and science.
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Gary Chapman, Technologist: 1952 - 2010
He raised important public issues, such as the impact of computers and the Internet on society, and encouraged social responsibility for computer professionals....
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