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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Google Puts Its Virtual Brain Technology to Work
Google's recently developed learning software, which can identify specific objects by watching YouTube videos, is now being used to make Google's products smarter...
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NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares to Study Martian Soil
NASA's Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis.
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Artificial Intelligence For Developing Technology For Older Adults
The role of AI in the development of technologies that promote safe independent living for older adults will be the focus of an upcoming symposium titled AI for...
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Controlling Curiosity: How Do You Drive a Mars Rover?
Engineers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have the ultimate iPhone app.
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Uc Davis Team's Piano System Animates Hands to Do-Re-Mi
University of California, Davis researchers have developed an algorithm that creates computer-generated animations of piano playing, showing finger placement and...
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Mimicry Beats Consciousness in Gaming's Turing Test
The Turing test might still be too hard for software to crack—but two programs have already aced video gaming's answer to this famous evaluation of machine intelligence...
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Proposed Space Boat Could Explore Lakes on Saturn's Moon Titan
While rovers are ideal for exploring Mars, a boat is best for Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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Most European Languages in Danger of Digital Extinction
META-NET recently completed a study that assessed language technology support for 30 European languages in four different areas, including automatic translation...
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Computers Match Humans in Understanding Art
Lawrence Technological University researchers have developed an algorithm that demonstrates computers can be made to understand art in a way very similar to how...
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Warehouse 'bots Do Battle to Make Same-Day Delivery a Reality
The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.
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sing Artificial Intelligence to Chart the niverse
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics researchers have developed an AI algorithm to help chart and explain the structure and dynamics of the universe.
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Self-Driving Cars a Reality For 'ordinary People' Within 5 Years, Says Google's Sergey Brin
Self-driving, autonomous vehicles will be available for "ordinary people" in less than five years and they will be much safer than those driven by humans, says...
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Who's Behind the Wheel? Nobody.
The Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca is a 2.2-mile asphalt roller coaster plunging and soaring across California's tawny Monterey highlands.
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Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target
NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake...
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Redesigning the Data Center
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
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Scientists Ponder Interstellar Travel at Nasa-Backed Space Summit
In one room, scientists debated whether the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer will help find a way to bend the space-time continuum and make interstellar travel...
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A Robot With a Reassuring Touch
If you grab the hand of a two-armed robot named Baxter, it will turn its head and a pair of cartoon eyes—displayed on a tablet-size computer-screen "face"—will...
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Ethical Robots: Let Their Artificial Consciences Be Their Guides
When lethal autonomous robots take their place on the field of battle and function independent of human control, what will govern the decisions of these next-gen...
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Computer Program Can Identify Rough Sketches
Brown University researchers have developed software that can identify simple sketches in real time, which they note is the first program that enables semantic...
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