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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Study Finds Gender Bias in Open Source Programming
Women's contributions in open source software communities tend to be accepted more often than men's in general, but they are rejected more frequently when a woman's...
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Rice's Lydia Kavraki Wins ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Rice University professor and ACM Fellow Lydia Kavraki will receive this year's ACM Athena Lecturer Award.
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Can Early Experiences With Computers, Robots Increase STEM Interest Among Young Girls?
Six-year-old girls exposed to a computer-programming activity had more interest in technology and more positive outlooks about their own skills compared to non-participants...
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How the pdate Framework Improves Security of Software pdates
New York University professor Justin Cappos has been developing The Update Framework (TUF) for eight years to help organizations update their software securely....
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Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...
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Every Continent, and One Time Lord, Turned Out For the March For Science
An estimated 600 March for Science rallies took place Saturday across the U.S., and across the globe.
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Inside China's Plans For World Robot Domination
Scenes from China's quest to dominate the robotic future: At startup E-Deodar, a human-looking droid serves coffee to employees who are building $15,000 industrial...
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Free Quantum Computers Online!
D-Wave and IBM offer access to supercomputing quantum computers in the cloud.
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Combating Cancer With Data
Supercomputers will sift massive amounts of data in search of therapies that work.
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Making Chips Smarter
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are motivating researchers to design and build new chips to support different computing models.
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Bionics in Competition
Developers of innovative assistive devices compete as a means of networking with each other.
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t Researcher Creates Robotic Cheetah
Researchers are developing a scaled-down robotic version of a cheetah that uses only about 15% more energy than the real animal.
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Smart Healthcare ses Stats to Spot a Stumble
Researchers have developed a statistical scheme that detects when senior citizens or others need help after falling.
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How Youtube's Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media
At the age of 21, David Pakman started a little Massachusetts community radio talk program.
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Don't Worry, Driverless Cars Are Learning From Grand Theft Auto
In the race to the autonomous revolution, developers have realized there aren't enough hours in a day to clock the real-world miles needed to teach cars how to...
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Science, Engineering Studies Are Still a Hard Sell to Women
Women earned just 21% of U.S. undergraduate engineering degrees and an even smaller share of computer science degrees, according to new data from the National Student...
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Canada Tries to Turn Its A.i. Ideas Into Dollars
Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada—backed by...
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23andme Given Green Light to Sell Dna Tests For 10 Diseases
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home genetic test that can help to determine a person's risk of developing certain diseases....
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