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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In Eye Control, a Promise to Let Your Tablet Go Hands-Free
Forget touch screens and voice recognition; what if you could control your computer just by looking at it?
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A Machine That Makes Cameras: The Aesthetics of the Lytro
Let's think about photography as people live it.
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Online Social Science: Can the Web Graduate from Digital Petri Dish to Virtual Laboratory?
In many ways the Internet is the ultimate virtual laboratory.
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App Tracks Air Quality; Instant Data For People With Respiratory Issues
University of Alabama in Huntsville researchers have developed the Mobile Air Quality Index (MobileAQI), a free mobile phone application that provides instant up...
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The Robotic Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife
The device doesn't look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer.
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Nasa Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian...
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How Martin Odersky Rewrote the Rules of Coding For a Mobile World
Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...
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Teaching Tiny Drones How to Fly Themselves
Thanks to the wars in the Middle East, drones like the Predator have become household names.
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Despite Ceasefire, Israel-Gaza War Continues Online
It's been a week since Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire pausing their war in Gaza. But on the internet, a different kind of fighting never stopped—and has actually...
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Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones
Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects' cellphones, and the cornucopia of...
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In the Year of Disruptive Education
As college tuitions soar, various online models vie to educate college students worldwide — at no cost.
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Zoom In, Zoom Out
Drilling down to more detail on a computer screen, or moving out to see the context, is basic. But it's hardly simple and, after 20 years, innovations are still...
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Quantum Quests
Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.
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ndisclosed Finding By Mars Rover Fuels Intrigue
The Mars rover Curiosity has found something—something noteworthy, in a pinch of Martian sand. But what is it?
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Want a Flying Drone? These Students 3D-Printed Their Own
It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.
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In China, 25 Million People se Only Their Cell Phones to Read Books
On vacation in China earlier this month, I stopped by Shanghai's seven-story downtown "Book City," bustling with activity on a weekday afternoon that, as a publisher...
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Another Year, Another Doubling of Data Traffic (blame Video!)
Demand for mobile data continues to rise: Doubling in the past 12 months according to a new report for Ericsson. Smartphones are obviously part of the equation,...
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