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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Augmented Eternity: Scientists Aim to Let S Speak From Beyond the Grave
Augmented eternity, the posthumous preservation of a person's knowledge, beliefs, and personality, could be feasible within 15 to 25 years.
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Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?
Most people believe self-driving vehicles should ultimately put their passengers' lives first, according to a new study.
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The Things People Googled After Britain Voted to Leave the Eu
Google has said there was a dramatic spike in searches for Irish passport applications as news of the UK''s decision to leave the EU broke.
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Accelerating Search
The latest in machine learning helps high-energy physicists handle the enormous amounts of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider.
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Booming Enrollments
The Computing Research Association works to quantify the extent, and causes, of a jump in undergraduate computer science enrollments.
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Legal Advice on the Smartphone
New apps help individuals contest traffic, parking tickets.
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Quantum Computer Makes First High-Energy Physics Simulation
Physicists have performed the first full simulation of a high-energy physics experiment—the creation of pairs of particles and their antiparticles—on a quantum...
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Nasa Scientists Discover nexpected Mineral on Mars
Scientists have discovered an unexpected mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater on Mars, a finding that may alter our understanding of how the planet evolved.
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Goodbye, Password. Banks Opt to Scan Fingers and Faces Instead.
The banking password may be about to expire—forever.
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MIT AI System Predicts When People Will Kiss, Hug, or Shake Hands
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an artificial intelligence that can accurately predict human interactions.
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Professor's Work Focuses on Revving p Our Highest-Speed Networks
The research of University of Virginia professor Malathi Veeraraghavan could help the latest supercomputers and large-scale observatories each their full potential...
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Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?
The dazzling sunlight that flooded the lake-front restaurant where I sat down with Chris Kraft in 2014 was nothing compared to the brightness in his eyes.
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China's New Supercomputer Puts the S Even Further Behind
This week, China's Sunway TaihuLight officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champ? Also from China.
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'ransomware' Cyberattack Highlights Vulnerability of niversities
The first Patrick Feng knew about a cyberattack on his university was when one of his colleagues told him that her computer had been infected by hackers and rendered...
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World's First 1,000-Processor Chip
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have designed a microchip that contains 1,000 independently programmable processors.
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Scientific Gains May Make Electronic Nose the Next Everyday Device
Researchers are creating an electronic nose to collect and analyze chemicals present in human breath.
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Research Proves the Improbable Can Be Made Possible
Texas A&M University professor Daniel Jimenez has revolutionized the way research is conducted on microprocessors.
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Google Tackles Challenge of How to Build an Honest Robot
Google can see a future where robots help us unload the dishwasher and sweep the floor. The challenge is making sure they don’t inadvertently knock over a vase—or...
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Here's Your Chance to Decode President Lincoln's Secret Messages
On April 12, 1865—three days after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox and two days before President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated—the president sent...
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