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 nveils Neural Network with 'superhuman' Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
Here's a tricky task. Pick a photograph from the Web at random. Now try to work out where it was taken using only the image itself.
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Will the Nsa Finally Build Its Superconducting Spy Computer?
The U.S. National Security Agency vision of a superconducting supercomputer may leap forward with the Cryogenic Computing Complexity program.
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Chameleon Adapts to Secure the Cloud
A minority-led group of researchers is looking to the U.S. National Science Foundation-funded Chameleon cloud platform as a tool for developing cyberattack prevention...
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A New Algorithm From MIT Could Protect Ships From 'rogue Waves' at Sea
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a predictive tool that could give ships a two- to three-minute advance warning of approaching rogue...
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IBM Watson Machine Learns the Art of Writing a Good Headline
The latest milestone for IBM researchers in their development of the Watson platform is the creation of a system for automatically abstracting documents.
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Big-Data Visualization Experts Make sing Scatter Plots Easier For Today's Researchers
A new study found outcomes acquired via algorithmic methods do not always correlate to human perception assessments when grouping scatter plots according to similarity...
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Apple Encryption Stand Highlights Mobile Operators' Dilemma
Apple Inc's stance on privacy in the face of a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers has raised awkward questions...
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Rich Data, Poor Fields
Diverse technologies help farmers produce food in resource-poor areas.
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When Computers Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Classification algorithms can lead to biased decisions, so researchers are trying to identify such biases and root them out.
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Should Self-Driving Cars Have Drivers Ready to Take Over?
The day when you'll be chauffeured to work by your car may not be far off.
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Autonomous Vehicle Technology Will Keep Soldiers Safer on Air, Land, Sea
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute researchers are developing autonomous warfare technology, including an unmanned air vehicle and an unmanned ground vehicle.
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sing Plasmonics to Transmit More Data
Northwestern University researchers have developed a means to modulate light signals in the near-infrared wavelength region.
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rop Student's Project: a Thinking Robot
Boston University engineering student Emily Fitzgerald has developed a robot that can recognize specific objects and steer around obstacles without human guidance...
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Should You Edit Your Children's Genes?
Ruthie Weiss's basketball team seemed to be minutes away from its fourth straight loss.
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How to Build an nbeatable Poker-Playing Robot
The allure of building superior poker-playing computer programs is the chance to tackle the challenge of dealing with missing information.
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On-Chip Random Key Generation Done sing Carbon Nanotubes
A new process uses carbon nanotubes to randomly wire part of a chip, which is then used to generate cryptographic information.
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Dartmouth Researchers Invent 'magic Wand' to Improve Healthcare, Cybersecurity
A digital "magic wand" developed by Dartmouth College researchers makes it easy for people to connect their devices to Wi-Fi.
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Researchers Are Developing Shape-Shifting Fluid Robots
Bar-Ilan University researchers say they have created fluid robots that could operate better than solid robots in chaotic, hostile environments.
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On-Chip Random Key Generation Done sing Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes are small and can be semiconducting, which makes lots of people excited about using them as a replacement for features etched in silicon.
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