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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AI Powered Autonomous Cargo Ship for 500 Miles
A 749-gross-ton vessel is the first commercial cargo ship to be navigated entirely by artificial intelligence during a nearly 500-mile, 40-hour journey.
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Trilobite-Inspired Camera Boasts Huge Depth of Field
Chinese and U.S. researchers collaborated on the development of a camera with a massive depth of field.
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Americans Have Their Sensitive Online Activity Exposed Over 700 Times Daily
Real-time bidding is a process that runs in the background on websites and apps and tracks what you look at, no matter how private or sensitive it is.
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Why Isn't New Technology Making Us More Productive?
Innovations like cloud computing and artificial intelligence are hailed as engines of a coming productivity revival, but a broad payoff across the economy has been...
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U.S. Civil Rights Enforcers Warn Employers Against Biased AI
The U.S. government has warned employers that artificial intelligence technology for screening new job candidates or tracking productivity could violate civil rights...
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Perception-Based Nanosensor Platform Could Advance Detection of Ovarian Cancer
A multi-institutional research team analyzed spectral signatures of ovarian cancer by harnessing machine learning and the fluorescence of carbon nanotubes.
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Microchips that Mimic the Human Brain Could Make AI More Energy Efficient
Neuromorphic chips could cut the power demands of digital assistants and other devices by orders of magnitude.
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Machine Learning Has A Backdoor Problem
The researchers explored how the vast available knowledge about backdoors in cryptography could be applied to machine learning.
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Quantum Computing May Make Ray Tracing Easier
U.S., U.K., and Portuguese researchers combined classical ray tracing algorithms with quantum computing to improve ray tracing performance as much as 190%.
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FogROS Brings Robotic Cloud Computing to the Robot Operating System
ROS 2 offers a method for offloading robotic tasks to a remote server, using a cloud computing platform like Amazon Web Services.
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Differential Privacy the Correct Choice for 2020 U.S. Census
A new study concluded the U.S. Census Bureau's move to DP as a de-identification mechanism for the 2020 Census was appropriate.
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Chinese Hackers Tried to Steal Russian Defense Data, Report Says
The campaign detailed by a cybersecurity firm highlights Beijing's increasingly sophisticated tactics to spy on an array of targets, including countries it considers...
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Next-Generation Weather Reporting: Versatile, Flexible, Economical Sensors
A team of scientists in Japan has developed a multitasking weather sensor that measures rain volumes and wind speeds.
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Finding the Branches on the Tree of Life
The new Deep Learning for Unsupervised Clustering of DNA Sequences technique draws taxonomic relationships between organisms via unsupervised machine learning. ...
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Seeing is Deceiving
Researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo trained algorithms on self-blended images to better spot deepfake images and video.
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Always Improving Performance
Jack J. Dongarra is the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high-performance...
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A Deeper Understanding of Deep Learning
Kernel methods clarify why neural networks generalize so well.
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Addressing Labor Shortages with Automation
Labor shortages have many companies turning to automation technology, but with mixed outcomes.
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Immersion Cooling Heats Up
Depending on climate conditions, the availability of renewables and other factors, immersion cooling can make a profound difference in both energy consumption and...
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