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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Manipulating Faces From Afar in Real Time
Computer scientists say they have created a process dubbed "live facial re-enactment" that can instantaneously transfer facial expressions.
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c3m Researches Simulator of Human Behavior
Researchers at the Charles III University of Madrid in Spain are investigating how to build a system that recreates human behavior.
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A Basis For All Cryptography
The inability to practically apply indistinguishability obfuscation to deliver secure cryptography may be mitigated with an efficient method for functional encryption...
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Relearning to Speak
New systems can help you not only learn to understand a second language, but how to pronounce it correctly.
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What It Will Take to Make Computer Science Education Available in All Schools
Marie desJardins of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, sees a great need to expand computer science education in the K-12 grades.
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How Your Device Knows Your Life Through Images
Researchers have designed an artificial neural network to identify scenes in photographs taken by people using wearable cameras or mobile phones.
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It's Not Just Vw: A Robust Market For Reprogramming Vehicles
Lawmakers want to know more about Volkswagen's massive cheat—how the automaker used software to crank up the power on a vehicle, and then hide the fact.
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Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines
When Google-parent Alphabet Inc. reported eye-popping earnings last week its executives couldn’t stop talking up the company's investments in machine learning and...
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ab Research Studies Cyberattacks Through the Lens of Eeg and Eye Tracking
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently presented a study about users' susceptibility to, and ability to detect, certain cyberattacks. ...
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How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones
The Unicode Consortium, founded in the late 1980s to create a standardized code for text characters, is attracting interest as the arbiter of new emojis.
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Image Too Good to Be True? DARPA Program Targets Image Doctoring
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to develop an easy-to-use toolset to detect altered images.
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Drivers Push Tesla's Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities
Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use of an automated driving system, called Autopilot, in its Model S all-electric...
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We Don't Need Humans on Mars
The two mobile robots Spirit and Opportunity were launched from Earth in 2003 and arrived on opposite sides of Mars in 2004. A suite of cameras, instruments, and...
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Settling the Controversy Over Photo of Lee Harvey Oswald
Dartmouth College researchers have used three-dimensional modeling to confirm the authenticity of a photo of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle.
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Researchers Aim to Make Privacy Second Nature For Software Developers
A New York University researcher and colleagues are working to make user privacy an integral part of the software development process.
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Introducing Marty, Stanford's Self-Driving, Electric, Drifting Delorean
A team of Stanford University engineers have built an autonomous, drifting DeLorean powered by electricity to research the physical limits of self-driving systems...
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Algorithmic Authors
Natural Language Generation software begins delivering on the promise of automated prose.
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Brain Science Helps Computers Separate Speakers in a Crowded Room
People can listen to a single voice amid the hubbub of a cocktail party; algorithms can help computers do it, too.
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Companies Proactively Seek Out Internal Threats
Organizations must balance their concerns with the protection of employee privacy.
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