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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Not Stuck on Silicon
Researchers have developed a new technique they say could reduce the overall cost of wafer technology.
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A Better Understanding of Brain Health at Our (bionic) Fingertips
The European Union-funded NANOBIOTOUCH and NEBIAS projects examined how touch stimuli and neural processing interact cs more intuitive.
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Rechargeable 'spin Battery' Promising For Spintronics and Quantum Computing
Researchers at Purdue University have produced a rechargeable "spin battery" from topological insulators.
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Teaching a Driverless Car to Turn Left
Getting driverless cars to make safe left turns at intersections is a key challenge for engineers, as they involve both psychology and technology.
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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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Dna's Secret Weapon Against Knots and Tangles
Leonid Mirny swivels in his office chair and grabs the power cord for his laptop.
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On Venus, Tectonics Without the Plates
As we've explored the Solar System, some items we're familiar with from Earth's geology have kept appearing in new places.
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Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps
A collaboration between researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Google has enabled the Internet company to reduce the number of fraudulent businesses...
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Twin Research Reveals Which Facial Features Are Most Controlled By Genetics
Researchers at King's College London in the U.K. reviewed three-dimensional facial simulations of about 1,000 female twins, and found the shapes of specific facial...
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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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What Netflix Can Teach S About Treating Cancer
Johns Hopkins University professor Elana Fertig details her research to enhance precision medicine in cancer, using the techniques developed for finding patterns...
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Nasa's Mars Rover Opportunity Leaves 'tribulation'
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is departing "Cape Tribulation," a crater-rim segment it has explored since late 2014, southbound for its next destination...
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'space Fabric' Links Fashion and Engineering
Raul Polit Casillas grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion designer in Spain, and, at a young age, he was intrigued by how materials are used for design...
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Find Out If a Robot Will Take Your Job
At a community college in upstate New York, 12 cafeteria workers recently learned that they will lose their jobs—and be replaced by self-serve machines.
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Pattern Discovery Over Pattern Recognition: A New Way For Computers to See
Researchers are designing machine-learning systems to enable supercomputers to identify large-scale atmospheric structures in climate data.
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Motor Neurons Adjust to Control Tasks
Researchers have found that motor cortical neurons optimally adjust how they encode movements in a task-specific manner.
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Researchers Harness Heat to Power Computers
Researchers say they have developed a nano-thermal-mechanical device that could help computers use heat as an alternative energy source.
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