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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Microwave-Based Test Method Can Help Keep 3D Chip Designers' Eyes Open
Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new way to test multilayered, three-dimensional computer chips.
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Cracking Genomic Codes With the Cloud
A team at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization has developed a machine-learning library that analyzes genomic data in real time...
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'alien' Dna Makes Proteins in Living Cells For the First Time
Life has spent the past few billion years working with a narrow vocabulary. Now researchers have broken those rules, adding extra letters to biology's limited lexicon...
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Nasa Builds Its Next Mars Rover Mission
In just a few years, NASA's next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet.
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Artificial Muscles Give Soft Robots Superpowers
Researchers have developed origami-inspired muscles that strengthen soft robots, enabling them to lift objects up to 1,000 times their own weight using air or water...
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Artificial Intelligence Goes Bilingual--Without a Dictionary
Researchers in Spain and Facebook have separately developed unsupervised machine-learning techniques for teaching neural networks to translate between languages...
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Pipefish Robot Patrols City Pipes to Detect nderground Water Leaks
PipeFish is an autonomous robot that can quickly and inexpensively detect damage in municipal water pipes.
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How an nderwater Sensor Network Is Tracking Argentina's Lost Submarine
On 15 November, Argentina's Navy lost contact with the ARA San Juan, a small diesel-powered submarine that had been involved in exercises off the east coast of...
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To Build the World's Smallest Atomic Clock, Trap a Nitrogen Atom in a Carbon Cage
For Fridtjof Nansen, 13 April 1895 started well.
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nl Researchers Explore the Complexities, Dangers of Deep Learning
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are on the cutting edge of machine-learning development.
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Battling AI Biases
Machine learning mimics human biases; addressing the problem is complicated.
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South Korea Developing AI System to Keep Journalism Alive
Researchers in South Korea are developing an artificial intelligence system to help the journalism industry regain the public trust and recoup lost earnings.
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AI-Controlled Brain Implants For Mood Disorders Tested in People
Brain implants that deliver electrical pulses tuned to a person's feelings and behaviour are being tested in people for the first time. Two teams funded by the...
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How the Pentagon Is Preparing For the Coming Drone Wars
More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary...
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Scientists Have Built a 'hallucination Machine' For a Drug-Free Brain Trip
Researchers say they can replicate hallucinatory experiences by combining virtual reality technology and Google's Deep Dream neural network system into a "Hallucination...
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tc Students' Research Project Controls Drones sing Brainwaves
Researchers are developing a system in which a person can control multiple drones by thought alone.
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Driverless Cars Promise Far Greater Mobility For the Elderly and People With Disabilities
Autonomous vehicles stand to benefit mobility-challenged seniors and other people with physical, cognitive, and mental disabilities.
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Parallel Computational Thinking
Applications must be programmed to process instructions in parallel to take full advantage of the new multicore processors.
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Perovskites Boost Solar-Cell Potential
New materials could allow cheaper, more efficient solar cells for both traditional and novel applications.
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