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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Google's Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in Vr
Let a thousand virtual worlds rain down from the clouds. Or rather, the cloud.
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Is Your Favorite Ballplayer Hitting When It Matters, or Just Padding His Stats?
Researchers have added to the field of baseball statistics with the first analysis of hitters' performance when their team is either almost guaranteed to win, or...
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A Handful of Photos Yields a Mouthful of (digital) Teeth
Disney researchers have developed a model-based method of realistically reconstructing teeth for digital actors and for medical applications.
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Coding Comics
Macarthur Fellow Gene Luen Yang's graphic novels introduce kids to computer programming.
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Google Deepmind Makes AI Training Platform Publicly Available
Alphabet's Google DeepMind is making its game platform available to the general public on GitHub. DeepMind is open sourcing the entire source code for its training...
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Can We Trust Autonomous Weapons?
Nations consider using defense systems that can make their own lethal decisions.
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Cracking the Code on Biology
Genetic engineering promises to revolutionize everything from agriculture and biofuels to medicine and food safety.
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Google Deepmind Could Invent the Next Generation of AI By Playing Starcraft 2
The announcement at BlizzCon 2016 that met with the most muted response was arguably the most revolutionary.
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Two Sigma Announces Public Launch of Halite, A.i. Coding Game
Halite creates an engaging game environment in which to learn, write, and visualize code in action.
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Virtual Reality App Makes Haptics as Immersive as Visuals
Disney Research has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application and a haptic chair that enable users to enhance their virtual experience with customizable...
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Nyu Is Building a Real-Life Holodeck
New York University recently received a $2.9-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop an immersive virtual reality experience.
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Playing Grand Theft Auto Can Teach Autonomous Cars How to Drive
Self-driving cars can learn the rules of the road by studying virtual traffic on videogames such as Grand Theft Auto V, according to a new study.
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Researchers Are Teaching Artificial Intelligence How to Terrify Humans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have trained a computer to produce scary images.
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Learning Securely
Because it is easy to fool, machine learning must be taught how to handle adversarial inputs.
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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize applications and redefine the digital economy.
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New Method Reduces Amount of Training Data Needed For Facial Performance Capture System
Disney Research has developed a facial-capture system that uses a sample of actors' recordings to synthetically generate the data needed to train the system.
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Twitter's 'firehose' of Tweets Is Incredibly Valuable, and Just as Dangerous
There are half a billion tweets a day. For the company, they’re sellable data. For despots, they’re a great way to hunt dissidents.
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The Search For Virtual Reality's Killer App
Sony Corp.'s release of the PlayStation VR on Thursday brings virtual reality to the cusp of mainstream adoption.
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Vr Started with Gaming, But It Will Take Over Every Other Industry
"We are looking at sensory immersion.
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