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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Systems to Handle Big Data Might Be This Generation's Moon Landing
An effort to build a radio telescope that can see back 13 billion years to the creation of the universe is prompting a five-year €32 million ($42.7 million) effort...
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New Ornl Tool Developed to Assess Global Freshwater Stress
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a method to make better use of large amounts of data concerning global geography, population, and climate...
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Nasa Probe Offers New View of Mercury: Alien World Right in Our Back Yard
The overheated, underappreciated runt of the solar system is finally getting some attention.
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Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.
AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, "I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart." That, he figured, would help him "discover things like time machines, robots...
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Scale-Out Processors: Bridging the Efficiency Gap Between Servers and Emerging Cloud Workloads
EPFL professor Babak Falsafi recently presented "Clearing the Clouds: A Study of Emerging Workloads on Modern Hardware," which received the best paper award at...
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Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past
Mining personal data to discover what people care about has become big business for companies such as Facebook and Google. Now a project from Microsoft Research...
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Preserving Digital Data
Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement...
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Talking to Machines
Voice recognition programs like Siri are now capable of understanding spoken commands, recognizing a conversation's context, and answering questions in a personable...
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Open For Business
Should academic articles be available for free on the Web?
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The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze.
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sing Virtual Worlds to 'soft Control' People's Movements in the Real One
Northwestern University researchers have found they can influence smartphone users' movements by creating mobile games with incentives designed to steer user behavior...
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How a Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone
A chilling demonstration to a small, packed room at the recent RSA security conference showed how clicking a single bad Web link while using a phone running Google's...
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What Geography Can Teach S About Basketball
The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...
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In the World of Big Data, Privacy Invasion Is the Business Model
Recent weeks have seen a lot of (overdue) talk about privacy and technology. There was theflap over Path and other mobile apps uploading your phone's address books...
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Mit Takes Aim at Secure, Self-Healing Cloud
MIT researchers are studying how to build a cloud computing infrastructure that recognizes and eliminates a cyberattack under normal operating procedures.
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World's Most Massive Supercomputer Needed For Colossal Space Telescope
The International Center for Radio Astronomy Research is working with the Canadian Astronomical Data Center to develop systems that will work with the Square Kilometer...
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Gaining Wisdom from Crowds
Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.
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Computing With Magnets
Researchers are finding ways to develop ultra-efficient and nonvolatile computer processors out of nanoscale magnets. A number of obstacles, however, stand in the...
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Policing the Future
Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.
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