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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Devices That Know How We Really Feel
Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.
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Watch the Earth From Space, Live!
It doesn't get much better than this (well, of course being in space might be better, albeit colder).
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5 New Record-Breaking Roller Coasters That Will Terrify You This Summer
Taller, faster, steeper, and more stomach-dropping amusement park rides are opening across the country.
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Transcending Artificial Intelligence
While it can be a blast going to see the latest Hollywood sci-fi thriller, watching it along with a leading expert in the science and technology fields relevant...
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niv. of Central Florida Wins National Cyber Defense Competition
The University of Central Florida won the 2014 Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past weekend in San Antonio.
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How to Build a Gesture-Controlled Web Game with Leap Motion
Modern smartphones have helped shed a light on the power of user interfaces that are driven by gesture and touch. It’s increasingly clear that touch will play a...
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p Close on Baseball's Borders
Steve Rushin of Sports Illustrated has called the line running through Connecticut that separates Yankee fans and Red Sox fans the Munson-Nixon line.
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Technology Confounds the Courts
Despite the need to make decisions relevant to technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court is not the most techno-savvy group.
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The Forever Disc
Can our digital data represent us a million years from now?
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How Computers Are Changing Biology
Sophisticated computer models and simulations are replacing test tubes and beakers. This revolution in biology research is redefining medicine, agriculture, and...
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The Cloud Industry Needs Aereo to Win. But Consumers Need Something Better.
The best way to think about Aereo, the company at the center of this week's Supreme Court battle over the future of computing, is as an example of legal performance...
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How America's Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future
Stories set in the future are often judged, as time passes, on whether they come true or not.
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Gambling with Computers
Researchers are turning to computers, big data, and sophisticated algorithms to improve the odds of picking a winner.
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Aereo Analysis: Cloud Computing at a Crossroads
The question of whether online broadcast television is to remain in the hands of a stodgy industry that once declared the VCR the enemy is being put directly before...
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Google ses Algorithms to Create Slr-Like Photos
Google has developed an algorithm that can generate photographic images with a depth of field similar to pictures taken by a single lens reflex camera.
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Hopkins Code Cracks Baseball Scheduling
A new system fulfills all of a baseball league's scheduling rules, and as many of the teams' requests and preferences as possible, using thousands of lines of code...
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Stanford Medical Technology Exposes Hidden Maladies of Sculptor Auguste Rodin's Celebrated Hands
One has a ganglion cyst.
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Stanford Engineers Design Video Game Controller That Can Sense Players' Emotions
Stanford University researchers have developed a prototype video game controller that gauges the player's brain activity in real time.
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