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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nderwater Radio, Anyone?
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to build wireless radio transmitters in environments that have previously thwarted communication.
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Meet The Municipal Chief Digital Officer
Finally, someone to make cities’ technology relevant.
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.s. Moves Exascale Goalpost, Targets 2021 Delivery
The U.S. timeline for achieving exascale supercomputer performance will be accelerated by one year.
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Tech Giants Open Virtual Worlds to Bevy of AI Programs
The Minecraft video game was familiar to José Hernández-Orallo long before he started using it for his own research.
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'i'm Here to Help,' Trump Tells Tech Executives at Meeting
The meeting between President-elect Donald J. Trump and the nation’s tech elite was hyped as something out of “The Apprentice”: The new boss tells his minions to...
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Tsu Scientists Discovered How to Avoid Congestion of Mobile Network
Researchers at Tomsk State University in Russia have developed a universal mathematical approach to queuing theory that can be used to eliminate lines in shops...
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Big Data Projects Ramp p
Harvested data could hold the key to solving some of society’s greatest problems.
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Mit's Modular Robotic Chain Is Whatever You Want It to Be
Researchers have developed an improved version of last year's LineFORM multifunctional snake robot that introduces modularity to the system.
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Lazy Coders Are Training Artificial Intelligences to Be Sexist
Artificial intelligence systems can form flawed and stereotypical word associations by learning from biased data samples.
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CLA Professors Stride Forward in Robotic Technology Research
University of California, Los Angeles computer scientists say recent artificial intelligence innovations are pushing robotic technology forward.
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Big Data Analytics--Nostradamus of the 21st Century
Researchers from Australia's Griffith University accurately predicted who would win 49 of the 50 states in the U.S. presidential election using social media comments...
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Why a Hacker Is Giving Away a Special Code That Turns Cars Into Self-Driving Machines
The founder of startup Comma.ai has released a free software kit in an effort to accelerate autonomous vehicle technology without running afoul of regulators.
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Facebook Developing Artificial Intelligence to Flag Offensive Live Videos
Facebook Inc is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor...
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Can We Trust Autonomous Weapons?
Nations consider using defense systems that can make their own lethal decisions.
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Containers Push Toward the Mayfly Server
The container revolution represents a large-scale shift in thinking about multitasking systems.
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Cracking the Code on Biology
Genetic engineering promises to revolutionize everything from agriculture and biofuels to medicine and food safety.
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Construction Greener and More Efficient With Intelligent Software
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Warwick have developed technology they say could boost the fuel efficiency and environmental friendliness of construction...
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