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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Activism Vs. Slacktivism
Today's activists are highly plugged into social media, mobile apps, and other digital tools. But does this make a difference where it matters most?
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Brave NUI World
Natural user interface developments, such as Microsoft's Kinect, may indicate the beginning of the end for the mouse.
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The Rise of Molecular Machines
The field of molecular computing is achieving new levels of control over biochemical processes and fostering sophisticated connections between computer science...
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Paper ncovers Power of Foldit Gamers' Strategies
University of Washington researchers recently completed a study that examined Foldit players' strategies and compared them to the best-known scientist-developed...
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The Future of Human Computer Interfaces
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing novel and more natural ways for people to interact with computers and access and store information...
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Poor Penmanship Spells Job Security For Post Office's Scribble Specialists
A man in Emden, Mo., recently mailed a letter that he had addressed, in a scribble, to somebody in "Shelhjreille, Mo." That's the way his handwriting made it...
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales on the Internet's Future
Censorship is the biggest threat to the development of the Internet, according to Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales.
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Software Finds Place in Posse
Law-enforcement and intelligence agencies are increasingly relying on information from the Web and electronic records to help solve crimes and evaluate threats...
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Ibm, Georgia Tech Launch Children's Health Data Modeling Project
The Georgia Institute of Technology will use IBM analytics technology to study data models as a way to systematically improve the pediatric health system.
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A Social-Media Decoder
From his 24th-floor corner office in midtown Manhattan, the veteran CBS research chief David Poltrack can gaze southward down the Avenue of the Americas, its...
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How Revolutionary Tools Cracked a 1700s Code
It has been more than six decades since Warren Weaver, a pioneer in automated language translation, suggested applying code-breaking techniques to the challenge...
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Risky Business
Governments, companies, and individuals have suffered an unusual number of highly publicized data breaches this year. Is there a solution?
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Hacking Cars
Researchers have discovered important security flaws in modern automobile systems. Will car thieves learn to pick locks with their laptops?
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Modeling Chaotic Storms
Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them...
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niversity Studies Crowdsourcing For Intelligence
The U.S. intelligence community is studying how to tap the power of crowdsourcing through a multi-university effort.
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Founding Father Wants Secure 'internet 2'
A new version of the Internet might be the best way to defend against cyberattacks, says Internet co-founder Vint Cerf.
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'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians
The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...
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Data Mining For Global Change: Furthering Science, Knowledge
University of Minnesota's Vipin Kumar and colleagues want to integrate computer scientists into the effort to address climate change, ecosystem health, and global...
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Fraunhofer SCAI Successfully Completes Pilot Project on Information Extraction from Chinese Scientific Literature
The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing recently completed a pilot Chinese text mining project.
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