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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E-Learning Can Have Positive Effect on Classroom Learning, Scholar Says
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign professor Caroline Haythornthwaite says traditional classroom education techniques could be improved by examining e-learning...
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Touching the Future
In combination with finger and hand gestures, multitouch input is enabling users to manipulate and display information in innovative and unprecedented ways.
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Upwardly Mobile
Mobile phones are bridging the digital divide and transforming many economic, social, and medical realities, particularly in developing nations.
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Living Machines
Researchers of molecular computing and communication are focusing on the type of breakthroughs needed to make the vision of ultrasmall, biocompatible computers....
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Swapping Your Body Becomes a Virtual Reality
Neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, have used camera technology to create the illusion that a human being has swapped his or her body...
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10 Microsoft Research Projects
Microsoft is supporting a host of projects in its research and development division that are focused on tackling real-world technical challenges but could haveView...
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Professor's Work Erases Technological Barriers
University of Washington computer scientist Richard Ladner is working with people with disabilities to help them get more out of technology. Ladner has launched...
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Meet Nicole, the Virtual Personal Assistant
Meet "Nicole." She's a glamorous personal assistant who can help with tasks around the office, play music, turn on the lights, tell the time, read news headlines...
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Nasa Turns to Open-Source Problem-Tracking Databases
The recent launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour will involve the first live test of new software that was designed to streamline the process of problem reporting...
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IBM Tries to Bring Brain Power to Computers
IBM Research has been working on a project to give computers the same processing capabilities as the human brain. The goal is to integrate brain-related senses...
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The Limits of Computability
Computational complexity and intractability may help scientists better understand how humans process information and make decisions.
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Analyzing Online Social Networks
Social network analysis explains why some sites succeed and others fail, how physical and online social networks differ and are alike, and attempts to predict how...
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