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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The Field of AI Research Is About to Get Way Bigger Than Code
The new AI Now Institute is a cross-disciplinary initiative that will research the impact of artificial intelligence on society.
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Father of the Web Confronts His Creation in the Era of Fake News
World Wide Web Consortium founder (and 2016 A.M. Turing Award recipient) Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses how his perspective of the Web has changed since its inception...
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Walk This Way: A Better Way to Identify Gait Differences
Researchers re developing new input/output architectures for convolutional neural network-based cross-view gait recognition by utilizing a Siamese network for verification...
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Choreography With Computers
Singapore Management University professor Akshat Kumar is developing computational methods for choreographing the movements of autonomous cars and ships.
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Killer Robots: Australia's AI Leaders rge Pm to Support a Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
A letter from 122 members of the Australian artificial intelligence research community urges Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to support for a ban on...
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Nas Report Investigates the Growth of Computer Science ndergraduate Enrollments
The National Academy of Sciences recently released a report titled "Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments."
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China's Technology Ambitions Could pset the Global Trade Order
When President Trump arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, he will most likely complain about traditional areas of dispute like steel and cars.
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Broadening the CS Cohort
Innovative programs are drawing women and minority students to computer science, and giving them the support they need to succeed.
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md Hosted Women Around the Country For Its Annual All-Female Hackathon
The University of Maryland recently hosted its third all-women hackathon.
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Russian Ads, Now Publicly Released, Show Sophistication of Influence Campaign
Lawmakers on Wednesday released a trove of ads that Russian operatives bought on Facebook, providing the fullest picture yet of how foreign actors sought to promote...
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Ornl, City of Oak Ridge Partner on Sensor Project to Capture Trends in Cities
Researchers are partnering with Oak Ridge, TN, to develop a sensor network and real-time visualization platform that helps cities evaluate urban activity trends...
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Facebook Struggles to Contain Russia Narrative
Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year's election—despite the...
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Twitter Bans Russian Government-Owned News Sites Rt and Sputnik from Buying Ads
Twitter is banning two Russian government-affiliated news sites from advertising on its platform, the social network said Thursday.
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Robots Won't Take Away Our Jobs, or They Will and It Will Be 'liberating,' Profs Say
Cornell University professor Guy Hoffman called the notion of losing all professions to robots delusional.
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Preservation For the (digital) Ages
Researchers are working to enhance the preservation of digital humanities databases.
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Focus Computer Science Funding on Teacher Training, Code.org Founder Says
Code.org founder Hadi Partovi says every dollar committed to computer science education should be channeled into teacher training.
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Censoring Sensors
Amid growing outcry over controversial online videos, tech firms grapple with how best to police online advertising.
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Overcoming Disabilities
Brain-computer interfaces hold the promise of fully featured replacements for body parts that don't work or are missing.
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With Commercial Satellite Imagery, Computer Learns to Quickly Find Missile Sites in China
The U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is calling on the private sector to develop machine-learning tools to automate repetitive and time-consuming image...
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