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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Technology Confounds the Courts
Despite the need to make decisions relevant to technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court is not the most techno-savvy group.
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The Forever Disc
Can our digital data represent us a million years from now?
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How Computers Are Changing Biology
Sophisticated computer models and simulations are replacing test tubes and beakers. This revolution in biology research is redefining medicine, agriculture, and...
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Computational Method Dramatically Speeds Up Estimates of Gene Expression, CMU, UMD Researchers Report
Researchers say they have developed a computational method that dramatically speeds up estimates of gene activity from RNA sequencing data.
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Wikipedia Searches and Sick Tweets Predict Flu Cases
A new algorithm mines data from Wikipedia to track flu cases across the United States.
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Google Algorithm Busts Captcha With 99.8 Percent Accuracy
The algorithm used by Google's Street View team to improve Google Maps also can beat CAPTCHAs with 99.8-percent accuracy.
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The Fuzzy Math Behind the Search For Mh370
Five weeks into the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, more than $30 million has been spent scouring great swatches of the southern Indian Ocean.
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Mit's Alex Pentland: Measuring Idea Flows to Accelerate Innovation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computational social scientist Alex Pentland's research has lately focused on social physics.
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Sneak a Peek Through the Mist to Technology of the Future
A tabletop display system could change the way people interact and collaborate in the future.
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A Faster Internet For Your Smartphones
Namehelp Mobile is a smartphone application that compares Domain Name Service performance provided by one's organization and by public DNS systems.
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Stanford Engineers Design Video Game Controller That Can Sense Players' Emotions
Stanford University researchers have developed a prototype video game controller that gauges the player's brain activity in real time.
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How a Ping-Pong-Playing Robot Is Revolutionizing Robotics
An Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student is developing a new way for robots to learn by using a ping-pong-playing robotic arm.
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'unbreakable' Security Codes Inspired By Nature
A new method of encrypting confidential information was inspired by the time-varying nature of cardio-respiratory coupling functions in humans.
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Stanford Computer Scientists Learn to Predict Which Photos Will Go Viral on Facebook
Stanford University researchers have developed a method for predicting which photos on Facebook will go viral.
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Overcoming Structural Uncertainty in Computer Models
Researchers have developed a technique for incorporating judgments into a model about structural uncertainty that stems from building an "incorrect" model.
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Big Data Reaches to the Stratosphere
A position paper developed at the recent Big Data and Extreme-scale Computing workshop emphasizes the goals and challenges of big data analytics.
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The Complexonaut
When he was in elementary school, Scott Aaronson, like many mathematically precocious kids of his generation, dreamed of making his own video games.
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How Your Location Data Is Being Used to Predict the Events You Will Want to Attend
Researchers are tapping data from location-based social media network Foursquare to learn what makes people more likely to attend one event rather than another.
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In the Long Run: Keeping Track of Athletes with Wearable Tech
Researchers have developed a wireless position location system that works anywhere conventional global-positioning systems satellites cannot reach.
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