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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Robot Linda Will Mingle With Visitors at the Natural History Museum
A specialist mobile robot named Linda will interact with the public at the Natural History Museum in London during Universities Week 2014.
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?
As Memorial Day reminds us every year, war doesn't go away.
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sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes
Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands.
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Mint Program Helps Pinpoint Threats Contained in Intelligence Data
Researchers are working to improve the capabilities of the U.S. Multi-Disciplinary Intelligence system, which monitors incoming intelligence data.
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Google ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave
At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...
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Google's Next Phase in Driverless Cars: No Brakes or Steering Wheel
Humans might be the one problem Google can't solve.
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'smart Pills' with Chips, Cameras, and Robotic Parts Raise Legal, Ethical Questions
Each morning around 6, Mary Ellen Snodgrass swallows a computer chip.
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Artificial Brains Learn to Adapt
Researchers are studying a new type of spiking neural network that more closely mimics the behavioral learning processes of mammalian brains.
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Swarm and Fuzzy
When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting.
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'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?
The robot tank is moving rapidly through the scrub on its caterpillar tracks.
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General Agreement
Leslie Lamport contributed to the theory and practice of building distributed computing systems that work as intended.
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Neuromorphic Computing Gets Ready For the (Really) Big Time
A technology inspired by biological principles but 'steamrolled for decades' prepares to take off as Moore's Law approaches its long-anticipated end.
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Three Questions with the Man Leading Baidu's New AI Effort
Artificial intelligence is guided by the far-off goal of having software match humans at important tasks.
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Computers See Your Face as a Child. Will They Recognize You as an Adult?
Questions have emerged about whether facial recognition technology could recognize an adult based on images of that person as a child.
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Google Hopes Test Drives Steer Americans to Embrace Its Robot Cars
Google this week embarked on its most concerted effort to provide an up-close look at its self-driving cars.
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Kindergarten Bots Teach Language to Tots
A series of experiments is aimed at determining how well children retain new words learned from robots over time.
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