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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A Machine Can Learn to Identify Sign Languages
A team of researchers is working to train a computer program to quickly identify the sign language of signers.
From Communications of the ACM
Visualizing Sound
New techniques capture speech by looking for the vibrations it causes.
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Online Privacy: Regional Differences
How do the U.S., Europe, and Japan differ in their approaches to data protection — and what are they doing about it?
From Communications of the ACM
Using Technology to Help People
Companies are creating technological solutions for individuals, then generalizing them to broader populations that need similar assistance.
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Symposium to Focus on Future of Voting Systems
A symposium on emerging trends in voting has been scheduled for Feb. 9-10 in Washington, D.C.
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Fujitsu Psychology Tool Profiles sers for Risk of Cyberattacks
Fujitsu researchers are integrating psychology into profiling software to make computer security more personalized.
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How the Home Telephone Sparked the ser-Centered Design Revolution
Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door's height, instead of right in the middle? Or why a washing machine is...
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Feds Creating Facial Recognition App to Track College Classroom Attendance
A new facial recognition app will make checking attendance faster and easier for college professors.
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Lincoln Laboratory Hosts First 'make Your Own Wearables' Workshop For High-School Girls
Mechanical engineer Kristen Railey, founder of Girls Who Build, recently hosted a pilot workshop for high school girls at a federally funded research and development...
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Optimizing Optimization Algorithms
Optimization algorithms, which try to find the minimum values of mathematical functions, are everywhere in engineering. Among other things, they're used to evaluate...
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10 Cool Network and Computing Research Projects
If you think the latest enterprise and consumer network and computer technologies rolling into your data center and being snuck into your offices by end users are...
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Wpi Awarded $4.4 Million to Help Bolster the Nation's Cybersecurity Workforce
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has been awarded a $4.4-million grant to develop a program to prepare professionals to address cybersecurity challenges and threats...
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Mathematician Tries to Solve Wave Equations
University of California, Los Angeles professor Terence Tao is using computers to help him solve a tricky mathematical question.
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How to Predict Responses to Disease
Researchers have developed a computer model that could help public health officials take steps to limit the dangers of a disease outbreak.
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Celebrations to Commemorate Boole’s 200th Birthday
The creator of Boolean algebra and Boolean logic is remembered.
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Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are For Hire Online
A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website.
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Colleges Rush to Create Cybersecurity Soldiers
The recent increase in computer attacks at major corporations have pushed colleges and universities to educate more cybersecurity students and professionals.
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Tropical Paradise Inspires Virtual Ecology Lab
A paradise on Earth could soon become the first ecosystem in the world to be replicated in digital form in painstaking detail, from the genes of its plants and...
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Pgi Develops a 'virtual Psychiatrist'
Researchers in India have developed an Internet-based application that diagnoses and treats common psychiatric disorders in adults and children.
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