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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Could a Computer Predict the Next Pandemic?
In a new study, researchers used machine learning to make accurate forecasts of whether animals carry dangerous pathogens.
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Java at 20: How It Changed Programming Forever
Java synthesized sound ideas, repackaging them in a practical format that turned on a generation of coders.
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Finally, Neural Networks That Actually Work
Jeff Dean, who helped create the fundamental computing systems that underpin Google's vast online empire, has returned to the world of neural networks.
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Boyhood
On the first weekend of January, many of the leading researchers in artificial intelligence traveled to Puerto Rico to take part in an unusual private conference...
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New Approach Trains Robots to Match Human Dexterity and Speed
In an engineering laboratory here, a robot has learned to screw the cap on a bottle, even figuring out the need to apply a subtle backward twist to find the thread...
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Mit's Humanoid Robot Goes to Robot Boot Camp
As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope.
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New Technology Could Fundamentally Change Future Wireless Communications
A new technique that can estimate and cancel out interference from a transmission allows a radio device to simultaneously transmit and receive data on the same...
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Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Avatar
Researchers have developed a system to track the facial expressions of users wearing a virtual-reality headset and transfer them to a virtual avatar.
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Real-Time Data Sharing Can Make Airports Greener
University of Lincoln researchers have created a new framework designed to reduce delays, improve efficiency, and curb pollution at major international airports...
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Wolfram's Id Project Launch Touts Imageidentify Function
Wolfram Research's artificial intelligence-based Language Identification Project is equipped with an ImageIdentify function.
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Better Predicting Flu Outbreaks With Wikipedia
A team of researchers has developed a method for forecasting the course of upcoming flu seasons by analyzing the views of Wikipedia articles.
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Project Oxford Apis Offer Facial, Voice Recognition Capabilities
Microsoft's age-guessing site, How-Old.net, is powered by Project Oxford, which now offers tools developers can use to incorporate intelligence into their apps.
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Fast Track Program Invites Non-Traditional Roboticists to Help Bolster National Security
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotics Fast Track program aims to create a system for the rapid, cost-effective development of new robotics...
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Forging Relationships
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.
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Estonia: A Model For E-Government
Over the next decade, the population of Estonia is expected to soar more than 600% as the country becomes the first in the world to open its borders to an influx...
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Between the Lines
Smartphone apps are driving changes in the way people park. Sensors, crowdsourcing, and big data are making it easier to find open parking spots.
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Plenty of Proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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Humans Out-Play an AI at Texas Hold 'em—for Now
In 1997 chess master Gary Kasparov went to battle against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a landmark match. After six games Deep Blue prevailed, marking the...
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Computing at the Speed of Light
A new ultracompact beamsplitter for dividing light waves into separate channels could lead to computers that work millions of times faster than conventional machines...
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