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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Our Brains Are Being 'continuously Reshaped' By Smartphone se
Extensive use of smartphone touchscreens is changing the sensory relationship between our brains and our thumbs, a study published in Current Biology has revealed...
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This Year's 8 Smartest i Design Ideas
When your family gathered for the holidays this year, did you take note of the technology everyone was using?
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A Q&a With the Hackers Who Say They Helped Break Into Sony's Network
Lizard Squad. That's the hacker group whose name is suddenly on everyone's lips after it took credit for ruining Christmas for PlayStation and Xbox gamers everywhere...
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Google Boosts ACM's Turing Award Prize to $1 Million
The increase reflects the escalating impact of computing on daily life, through the innovations and technologies it enables.
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Data Brokers Are Watching You
You would be surprised by how much they know about you, and what they are doing with your information.
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Smart Transportation Networks Drive Gains
Transportation engineers and city planners are looking to information technology to redefine traffic management in urban areas. With the opportunity, however, comes...
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Sony Made It Easy, but Any of S Could Get Hacked
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems and began revealing many...
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Disney Research Builds Computer Models to Analyze Play in Pro Basketball and Soccer
Disney researchers used player-tracking data from more than 600 basketball games from the NBA to develop models that can make accurate in-game predictions of what...
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How Disney Is Perfecting Animated Eyeballs
Creating lifelike animated characters is hard.
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Why Neural Networks Look Set to Thrash the Best Human Go Players For the First Time
University of Edinburgh researchers have applied machine-learning techniques and a vast database of games to train a neural network to find the next move in a...
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Optical Illusions Fool Computers Into Seeing Things
University of Wyoming researchers are studying algorithms working together that may resulting in a program that could generate creative pictures by itself.
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The Surprising ses of Games Controllers
Games controllers can end up in the strangest places.
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Boston Researcher Cynthia Breazeal Is Ready to Bring Robots Into the Home. Are You?
The MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group flanks the soaring atrium on the fourth floor of the Wiesner Building, a wall of metal panels along the southern edge...
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Football Robot Promises to Get Rid of the Boring Bits
BBC NewsPolytechnic University of Catalonia researchers have developed software that can identify the important parts of a soccer match and edit them together to...
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Baer's Odyssey: Meet the Serial Inventor Who Built the World's First Game Console
Even if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer.
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Haptic Holograms Let You Touch the Void in Vr
Feeling is believing. A system that uses sound waves to project "haptic holograms" into mid-air—letting you touch 3D virtual objects with your bare hands—is poised...
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Finding an Image with an Image and Other Feats of Computer Vision
"We found that people were searching for squirrels just to favorite them, just to click 'like.' And the same with buses."
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To Lure Young, Movie Theaters Shake, Smell and Spritz
Having tried 3-D films, earsplitting sound systems and even alcohol sales in pursuit of younger moviegoers, some theater chains are now installing undulating seats...
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The Supreme Court Debates Rap Lyrics to Draw a Line on Criminalizing Online Speech
The Supreme Court on Monday looked ready to clarify the law on whether violent threats made on websites like Facebook should be liable for criminal prosecution,...
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