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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Studying the Speed of Multi-Hop Bluetooth Networks
Researchers have studied the performance of Bluetooth networks and measured the delays taking place in information transmission.
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Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate
When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...
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Time Cloak sed to Hide Messages in Laser Light
A "time cloak" that conceals events rather than objects can hide secret messages through a trick of light, making information invisible to all but the intended...
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Codebreaking Has Moved on Since Turing's Day, With Dangerous Implications
Recent interest in computing and cryptography pioneer Alan Turing offers an opportunity to see the massive gains that have been made in the field of codebreaking...
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Co-Robots Team Up With Humans
A group of researchers believe people and robots will be able to accomplish much more by working together, as long as robots have common sense.
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Simple Circuit Could Double Cell-Phone Data Speeds
A simple circuit could enable smartphones and other wireless devices to send and receive data twice as fast as is currently possible.
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Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages
From D to R, these lesser-known languages tackle specific problems in ways worthy of a cult following.
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Sensors For Seniors
In-home technologies are helping seniors stay aware, healthy, and in touch.
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Intelligent Living
After years of false starts, the smart home is gaining momentum.
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Decoding the Language of Human Movement
Computers that recognize what is happening in moving images can help defend against crime, and revolutionize rehabilitation.
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What's Next For the Rosetta Mission and Comet Exploration
Somewhere dark and icy on a comet 320 million miles away, the history-making, comet-bouncing Philae spacecraft is sleeping.
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Note to Future Self
Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is working to develop a sort of cryptographic time capsule.
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New Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical
Researchers have developed a new kind of load driver that could enable biological circuits to behave almost as predictably as electronic circuits.
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Tomorrow's Degradable Electronics
SINTEF researchers in Norway say they have made electronic components that are soluble in water and disappear after a few hours.
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Facebook's Flow Could Help Javascript Programmers Spot Elusive Bugs
Facebook researchers have developed Flow, an open source debugging tool for JavaScript designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse of data types.
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S Regulators Move on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics
For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world...
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Structural Electronics Come Online
Multifunction components are becoming more common as the world gets "smarter."
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