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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How Crashing Drones Are Exposing Secrets About .s. War Operations
Crashing drones are spilling secrets about U.S. military operations.
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Rewriting the Rules of Turing's Imitation Game
We have self-driving cars, knowledgeable digital assistants, and software capable of putting names to faces as well as any expert.
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Stonebraker Receives 2014 ACM A.m. Turing Award
MIT’s Stonebraker brought relational database systems from concept to commercial success.
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The Waves of the Future May Bend Around Metamaterials
Plastics. Computers. Metamaterials?
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For a Brighter Robotics Future, It's Time to Offload Their Brains
Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.
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Voice Control Will Force an Overhaul of the Whole Internet
Jason Mars built his own Siri and then he gave it away.
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What If Web Search Results Were Based on Accuracy?
Imagine, for a moment, that every Web search gave only accurate, verified information.
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New Approach ses 'twisted Light' to Increase the Efficiency of Quantum Cryptography Systems
University of Rochester researchers have developed a way to transfer 2.05 bits per photon by using "twisted light."
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Nasa Reformats Memory of Longest-Running Mars Rover
After avoiding use of the rover's flash memory for three months, the team operating NASA's 11-year-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reformatted the vehicle's...
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k Mapped Out By Genetic Ancestry
Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale...
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Stealing Data from Computers sing Heat
Air-gapped systems, which are isolated from the Internet and are not connected to other systems that are connected to the Internet, are used in situations that...
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Doing Astronomy with Neutrinos
The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, monitors a cubic kilometer of ice for the flashes of light produced as energetic particles traverse the ice.
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The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was
On October 16, 2011, the early evening weather on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California, was almost unspeakably gorgeous—mild as a warm bath,...
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What's the Price Now?
Dynamic pricing finds its way into a growing number of industries.
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Molecular Moonshots
Synthetic biologists may be closing in on potentially world-changing breakthroughs, but they are often hamstrung by a shortage of software tools.
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'space Lawyers' Help Startups Navigate the Final Legal Frontier
When Sagi Kfir meets people and tells them he is a "space attorney," they usually think he has a strange way of saying he is in real estate.
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How the Dark Web Spurs a Spying 'arms Race'
It's a technological arms race, pure and simple.
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Rosetta Is Tailing a Warming Comet
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft caught up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last August, then dropped a lander onto the comet in November. Now...
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What Your Tweets Say About You
How much can your tweets reveal about you? Judging by the last nine hundred and seventy-two words that I used on Twitter, I'm about average when it comes to feeling...
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