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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Artificial Intelligence Fights Notorious Crop Pest
National Taiwan University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can predict an outbreak of crop-damaging fruit fly swarms.
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Getting Serious About Global Gaming
University of Alberta researchers have developed a network designed to bring together academia and the gaming industry.
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Making Crowdsourcing Easier
MIT researchers have developed Qurk, a database system that automatically crowdsources tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform computationally.
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Hubble's Hidden Treasures Revealed
Hubble has made over a million observations since launch, but only a small proportion are attractive images—and an even smaller number are ever actually seen by...
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Digitizing the Past to Protect and Preserve History
Archeologists now take thousands of digital photos, make notes in a database on a laptop or a tablet, and record careful, geographically referenced information...
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Atomic-Level Computing
Thanks to the University of New South Wales and IBM Research, scientists are moving closer to the junction of quantum and digital computing.
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Garbage In, Info Out
Security researchers used malware to investigate large-scale Internet censorship in Egypt and Libya.
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Wind Sensor Damaged on NASA's Curiosity Rover
NASA has reported its first setback in the Curiosity rover mission to Mars.
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Your Life Is Fully Mobile
Just as remarkable as the power of mobility, over everything from love to learning to global development, is how fast it all happened. It is hard to think of any...
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c San Diego Computer Scientists Explore Secure Browser Design
UCSD researchers say they have developed a new approach to secure browsing design.
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Computer Scientists Reveal How Aquatic Olympic Gold Is Captured--Above and Below the Surface
NYU researchers followed Olympic swimmers and divers during their training sessions and used motion-capture techniques to reveal their movement above and below...
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The Campaign to Digitize Your Wallet Is Intensifying
Last week, Starbucks joined forces with Square, a technology start-up that lets you pay for things with a smartphone. Coming from a company whose cafes seem to...
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Microswimmers: Research Shows Micron-Scale Swimming Robots Could Deliver Drugs & Carry Cargo Using Simple Motion
Georgia Tech researchers are using computational models to design swimming micro-robots that can carry cargo and navigate in response to light.
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Artist Tests Superstition on the Stock Market With Robot Analyst
An automated program has been created to buy and sell stocks based on superstition rather than logic.
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Disney Researchers Add Virtual Touch to the Real World
Researchers at Disney have demonstrated a computer interface that changes the way ordinary, everyday objects feel using a weak electric signal fed through a user's...
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Why Apple Will Turn to Holograms
Look around your office hallway or college campus and you'll see people holding interactive panes of glass.
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New Generation of Virtual Humans Helping to Train Psychologists
University of Southern California professor Albert Rizzo has created virtual humans who can interact with therapists via a computer screen and realistically display...
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Touch Your Philodendron and Control Your Computer: Technology Turns Any Plant Into an Interactive Device
Disney Research scientists have developed Botanicus Interactus, technology that enables houseplants to control a computer or other digital device.
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Average Web App Attacked Every Three Days
Do not envy the life of a Web app. It's a brutal, public existence filled with attacks from all sides. In fact, a new report by Imperva sheds some light on this...
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