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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Font for Digits Lets Numbers Punch Their Weight
Researchers at the St. Andrews and Calgary universities have developed FatFonts, a font that offers a way to write numbers so that their areas equal their numerical...
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US Sets $1.4m to Get Unique Metaphor-Recognizing Software System Humming
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has awarded a $1.4 million contract to a team that plans to develop software that can automatically recognize metaphorical speech...
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Picking the Brains of Strangers Improves Efforts to Make Sense of Online Information
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research recently presented their findings on distributed sensemaking at CHI 2012.
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How and Why You Should Do Data Journalism
One of the big areas of focus for technology companies over the past year has been "big data"—in other words, the idea that there can be a lot of value in finding...
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Automating Scientific Discovery
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.
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Robots Like Us
Thanks to new research initiatives, autonomous humanoid robots are inching closer to reality.
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Digitally Possessed
Virtual possessions play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. How we think about them and deal with them is changing the way we think and interact...
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A Workshop Revival
The success of Germany's Dagstuhl Seminars has inspired a proliferation of Dagstuhl-like venues, especially in India.
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From Beaker to Bits: Unique Collaboration Between Biologists and Computer Scientists Creates Computational Model of Human Tissue
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have developed a computational model called cell graphs that links the structure of human tissue to its corresponding...
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The Benefits of Data Talking to Data
Wall Street JournalSome companies on the cutting edge of technology are combining data streaming with advanced data-analytics methods that let them tie information...
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Virtual Wall For Manipulating Objects in 3D
A team at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia has developed a high-performance wall for visualizing and interacting with objects in 3D.
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Study Tracks How Conservatives Lost Their Faith in Science
An analysis of 36 years' worth of polling data indicates that confidence in science as an institution has steadily declined among Americans who consider themselves...
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Sanjeev Arora Wins 2011 Acm-Infosys Award
Sanjeev Arora, a computer scientist at Princeton University, is honored for breakthroughs that have advanced the power of computing.
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Preserving Digital Data
Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement...
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Talking to Machines
Voice recognition programs like Siri are now capable of understanding spoken commands, recognizing a conversation's context, and answering questions in a personable...
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Open For Business
Should academic articles be available for free on the Web?
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Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here
A recent Computerworld survey of 357 IT professionals found that 46 percent of respondents are noticing a shortage of Cobol programmers, and 50 percent said the...
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Poll Consensus on Million-Dollar Logic Problem
University of Maryland, College Park computer scientist William Gasarch has re-run his poll on the biggest problem in computer science.
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If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in se Today
Large sections of the transportation and military infrastructure, some modern businesses, and computer programmers still use technology that has not been updated...
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