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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Three Questions For Computing Pioneer Carver Mead
Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore's Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it's held true in the decades since.
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Why the .s. May Lose the Race to Exascale
In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers—exascale—there is no guarantee the U.S. will finish first.
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Life Points the Way to a New Template For Chipmaking
While significant obstacles remain, researchers are optimistic about using DNA to guide graphene into complex circuit shapes on silicon.
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What's Next For Gpu Chips? Maybe the Network.
Over the last few years it's been interesting to see where in the computing landscape graphics processors or GPUs like those turned out by Nvidia have turned up...
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Graphene: The Quest For Supercarbon
Mr G gazes out from a recruitment poster hanging in an engineering building in Cambridge, U.K.
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Milestone Could Help Magnets End Era of Computer Transistors
Magnetic switches could one day replace conventional transistors at the core of modern electronics.
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Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed
A team of researchers has achieved a breakthrough that brings quantum computing closer to real-world use.
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The Cloud Enables Hpc For All
Demand for high-performance computing is burgeoning and will continue to grow, with or without the requisite hardware.
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Blue Gene Active Storage boosts I/O performance at JSC
Researchers say they have successfully installed the world's first Blue Gene Active Storage system.
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The Secret Ingredient in Computational Creativity
IBM computer scientists are using big data on the Watson supercomputer to produce cooking results that could be called creative.
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Microsoft Sees Huge Potential in Fuel Cells
Microsoft recently released a study that touted the use of fuel cells to power data centers.
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Nasa Probe May Help Solve Riddle of Mars's Missing Air
NASA's next mission to Mars aims to answer one question: What happened to the air that once made the surface habitable?
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed
"Qubits" of information encoded in a silicon system persisted for almost 100 times longer than ever before.
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Will Ibm's Watson sher in a New Era of Cognitive Computing?
Computers as we know them have are close to reaching an inflection point—the next generation is in sight but not quite within our grasp.
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Blinded By the Light
The probe sails through space, traveling the distance of the LA-to-Chicago red-eye in a minute.
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Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
Welcome to the age of supercomputing for everyone.
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Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger Lhc
When Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started up in 2008, particle physicists would not have dreamt of asking for something bigger until they got their US$5...
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Researchers Develop At-Home 3-D Video Game For Stroke Patients
A new three-dimensional video game developed by Ohio State University researchers should make it easier for stroke patients to receive constraint-induced movement...
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