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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Games that Teach Coding
A growing number of games seek to introduce the concepts of programming to young players.
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What Happens When Big Data Blunders?
Big data is touted as a cure-all for challenges in business, government, and healthcare, but as disease outbreak predictions show, big data often fails.
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Reimagining Search
Search engine developers are moving beyond the problem of document analysis, toward the elusive goal of figuring out what people really want.
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What's Next For Digital Humanities?
New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.
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How Will Virtual Reality Change Our Lives?
And it's not just gamers who are benefiting from the immersive possibilities it offers.
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Technique Makes Holograms Highly Efficient, Secure
Harvard University researchers have programmed polarization into compact holograms.
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When Websites Won't Take No for an Answer
Harry Brignull, a user-experience consultant in Britain who helps websites and apps develop consumer-friendly features, has a professional bone to pick with sites...
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The Internet's Favorite Website
It's usually idle curiosity that drives me to Wikipedia.
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Looking For Art in Artificial Intelligence
Dartmouth College professors will explore the potential for algorithms to produce human-quality dance music, sonnets, and short stories.
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Cybersecurity Gets Smart
Researchers aim to apply artificial intelligence and machine-learning methods to take cybersecurity to a new, higher, and better level.
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
The next frontier for game-playing artificial intelligence could be the popular real-time strategy game "StarCraft."
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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Hyper Vision
There is something special happening in a generic office park in an uninspiring suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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The Minecraft Generation
The extremely popular Minecraft computer game is turning children into a generation of computing tinkerers and engineers.
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Fair se Prevails as Supreme Court Rejects Google Books Copyright Case
The Supreme Court on Monday declined (PDF) to hear a challenge from the Authors Guild and other writers claiming Google's scanning of their books amounts to wanton...
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Experiencing nderwater Worlds, Virtually
Dhruv Jain led the creation of a scuba-diving simulator as part of his Amphibian virtual reality project.
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Composing Musical Portraits Through a Computer
North Carolina State University professor Rodney Waschka takes data from pictures, book covers, audio, and other sources to make a portrait of a person.
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