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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Brave NUI World
Natural user interface developments, such as Microsoft's Kinect, may indicate the beginning of the end for the mouse.
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The Rise of Molecular Machines
The field of molecular computing is achieving new levels of control over biochemical processes and fostering sophisticated connections between computer science...
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A New Perspective on Crime Scenes
In 2009, to better record crime scenes, the New York City Police Department began using the Panoscan, a camera that creates high-resolution, 360-degree panoramic...
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Intel Shows Off Its Knights Corner One Teraflops Chip
Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second.
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Beauty Now in the Eye of the Algorithm
Xerox Research Center Europe computer scientists have developed technology that sorts photographs by their content as well as their aesthetic qualities. The technology...
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Lightning-Fast, Efficient Data Transmission Developed at Stanford
Stanford University researchers have developed a light-emitting diode that uses much less power than laser-based systems and can transmit data at 10 billion bits...
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In a Smart-System World, Data's 'the New Currency'
Modern smart systems produce billions of streams of real-time data, and analytics science is creating services that have even more value than the smart systems...
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Insights From Spinning Samples
University of Texas Center for Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Macromolecular Assemblies director Borries Demeler has developed UltraScan, software for use with...
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Open Data Initiative Moves Into the World of Consumers' Personal Data
The Open Data initiative has launched a project in Britain to assist businesses in returning personal data to consumers.
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Pitt Research Team Finds Ways to Reduce Computing Energy Consumption While Saving Money
University of Pittsburgh researchers are developing computer memory technology that could lower energy consumption associated with computer data storage. They...
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How Your iPhone Chip Will Reinvent the Internet Data Center
Jonathan Heiliger is the kind of guy you want running your data center.
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Ibm, Georgia Tech Launch Children's Health Data Modeling Project
The Georgia Institute of Technology will use IBM analytics technology to study data models as a way to systematically improve the pediatric health system.
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A Deeper Look Into Space
NASA hopes the James Webb Space Telescope, which can detect ancient light that its predecessors can’t, will reveal more information about the origins of the universe...
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In Surprise, China nveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips
China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States...
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How Yahoo Spawned Hadoop, the Future of Big Data
The email went to Eric14. His real name is Eric Baldeschwieler, but no one calls him that. At fourteen letters, Baldeschwieler is a mouthful, and he works in...
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Modeling Chaotic Storms
Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them...
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A Picture of Democracy
How digital cameras and smartphones might reduce corruption in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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New Project to Tackle Data Deluge: Eudat--Towards a Pan-European Collaborative Data Infrastructure
The recently launched EUDAT project aims to provide Europe's scientific and research communities with a sustainable European-wide infrastructure for improved access...
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Transcending Borders but Not Laws
As cloud computing spreads data around the globe, a haze of legal and privacy questions follows.
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