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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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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Spider Silk Sensors Could Search For Life on Mars
Ziggy Stardust would love this: Spiders could help find life on Mars.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Vast ndersea Network that Makes the Internet Work
Russians submarines and spy ships are "ggressively operating" near the undersea cables that are the backbone of the global Internet—worrying some U.S. intelligence...
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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
The fact that automated cars can never be perfectly safe raises ethical issues, such as how they should be programmed to act in the event of an unavoidable collision...
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Photons Open the Gateway For Quantum Networks
Researchers have created a photon contact, a key development in the effort to develop quantum computer networks.
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Dive of the Robobee
The RoboBee is smaller than a paperclip, and can flap its tiny wings 120 times per second.
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Seven Key Facts About Cassini's Oct. 28 'plume Dive'
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will sample the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, Oct. 28, when it flies through the moon's plume of icy spray.
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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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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Study Crickets' Aerial Acrobatics in Hopes of Building Better Robots
Johns Hopkins University researchers say they have spent more than eight months studying spider crickets in order to develop a new generation of jumping robots. ...
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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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ltrathin Microlenses Could Boost Space Science and Tech
Researchers have created the first ultrathin, flat lens able to focus light just as well as its curved counterparts, potentially enabling big breakthroughs in camera...
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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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Quality Boost For ser-Generated Sound
New algorithms could help people better understand sound quality on phones, video recorders, and dictaphones.
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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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John H. Holland 1929-2015
John Henry Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and of what became known as genetic algorithms, died in August at the age of 86.
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