Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM News
2 to Receive 2017 Acm/ieee George Michael Memorial Hpc Fellowships
The Fellowships honor exceptional Ph.D. students worldwide whose research focuses on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and large-scale data analysis...
From ACM TechNews
How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
Researchers are combining artificial intelligence and climate science to create deep-learning analyses of weather patterns.
From ACM News
Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable 'backdoors'
Early in August, NYU professor Siddharth Garg checked for traffic, and put a yellow Post-it onto a stop sign outside the Brooklyn building in which he works.
From ACM News
How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge of data.
From ACM TechNews
Why AI Visionary Andrew Ng Teaches Humans to Teach Computers
Stanford University professor Andrew Ng's current area of concentration is teaching next-generation artificial intelligence specialists to train computers.
From ACM Opinion
Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google
As excited as we are about the forthcoming generation of social home robots (including Jibo, Kuri, and many others), it's hard to ignore the fact that most of them...
From ACM TechNews
A Good Read: AI Evaluates Quality of Short Stories
Researchers say they have developed neural networks that assess short narratives to predict which stories will appeal to large audiences.
From ACM TechNews
Microsoft Claims New Speech Recognition Record, Achieving a Superhuman 5.1% Error Rate
Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence and Research Group says it has achieved a 5.1% error rate for its speech-recognition technology.
From ACM News
Robot the Musical
Artificial intelligence promises to change aspects of music ranging from rock concerts to advertising jingles.
From ACM Careers
Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
From Communications of the ACM
It's All About Image
Image recognition technology is advancing rapidly. Researchers are discovering new ways to tackle the task without enormous datasets.
From ACM News
Watch Hackers Hijack Three Robots For Spying and Espionage
The entire corpus of science fiction has trained humanity to fear the day when helpful household and industrial robots turn against it, in a Skynet-style uprising...
From ACM TechNews
Google's New AI Learns By Baking Tasty Machine Learning Cookies
Google Vizier is an artificial intelligence system that automatically tunes other artificial intelligence programs.
From ACM TechNews
AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude Some African-American Voices
Researchers warn some artificial intelligence programs are inheriting biases against certain dialects, which could lead to automatic discrimination as language-based...
From ACM News
Inside the Fighter Jet of the Future Where AI Is the PilotÂ
I'm in the cockpit of a Typhoon fighter jet. It's an overwhelming sea of buttons, twiddly knobs and square screens displaying various diagrams and measurements....
From ACM TechNews
How AI Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
Innovators are using deep neural networks to train machines to produce artwork by analyzing massive datasets. Google researcher Douglas Eck envisions artificial...
From ACM News
China Launches Brain-Imaging Factory
Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale.
From ACM TechNews
How Do You Fix a School-Bus Problem? Call MIT
A team of researchers has developed an algorithm to plot more efficient public-school bus routes.
From ACM Careers
China's Plan For World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy After All
Xu Li's software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank.
From ACM News