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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Rosetta's Lost Comet Lander Philae Could Wake p in May Sunshine
Spring is seen as a time of renewal. Flowers bloom. Days get longer. New life emerges. Something similar could happen on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the object...
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AI Won't End the World, But It Might Take Your Job
There's been a lot of fear about the future of artificial intelligence.
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Associated Press Looks to Expand Its Automated Stories Program Following Successful Launch
In the last three months of 2014, the Associated Press published 3,000 articles on the earning reports of U.S. companies. Previously it could publish only 300.
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Parallelizing Common Algorithms
Every undergraduate computer-science major takes a course on data structures, which describes different ways of organizing data in a computer’s memory.
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New Rules in China pset Western Tech Companies
The Chinese government has adopted new regulations requiring companies that sell computer equipment to Chinese banks to turn over secret source code, submit to...
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Shopping Habits Reveal Personal Details in 'anonymized' Data
Details about where and when you use your credit card could help reveal your identity to data thieves—even if they don't know your name, address and other personal...
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Business Secretary Cable Announces Partners in the Alan Turing Institute
The U.K.'s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has selected five universities to lead the Alan Turing Institute.
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Qubits With Staying Power
Researchers say they have developed a new technique that could enable the indefinite extension of quantum-secured communication links.
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Gullies on Vesta Suggest Past Water-Mobilized Flows
Protoplanet Vesta, visited by NASA's Dawn spacecraft from 2011 to 2013, was once thought to be completely dry, incapable of retaining water because of the low temperatures...
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Portable Mind-Reader Gives Voice to Locked-In People
You wake up in hospital unable to move, to speak, to twitch so much as an eyelid.
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The Technology that nmasks Your Hidden Emotion
Paul Ekman, perhaps the world's most famous face reader, fears he has created a monster.
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Will Nano Technology Soon Allow You to 'swallow the Doctor'?
Imagine a swarm of microscopic robots, so tiny that a teaspoon can hold billions of them.
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Charles H. Townes, Who Paved Way For the Laser in Daily Life, Dies at 99
Charles H. Townes, a visionary physicist whose research led to the development of the laser, making it possible to play CDs, scan prices at the supermarket, measure...
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In the Future, Your Touchscreens Will Touch You Back
You comfort your grieving friend online over chat, but you can't reach out and touch their shoulder.
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Netflix's Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human
On the opening night of this year's Sundance Film Festival, two films, as usual, had their premières, gaining maximum exposure to reporters and critics.
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AI Will Not Kill s, Says Microsoft Research Chief
Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life.
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Virtual Dissection Method Could Reinvigorate Zoology
Last summer, researchers demonstrated that non-invasive imaging combined with a staining technique enables the fast comparison and study of earthworm species and...
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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?
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