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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Sharing Computational Perspectives
Computer scientists are now making intellectual contributions to a wide range of other disciplines, including evolutionary theory, physics, and economics.
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New Mental-Health Apps For Iphones Like a 'therapist in Your Pocket'
Researchers are developing iPhone apps designed to alleviate the symptoms of mental illness. The apps provide advice on how to change negative affective states...
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Oil Spill on Track to Reach Atlantic No Later Than October
Oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of Mexico will reach the Atlantic Ocean within six months, says oceanographer Synte Peacock. Exactly when...
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Algorithm Ranks World's Top Soccer Talent
These days, in pretty much every sport, there is no hiding from statistics. Coaches, team owners, fantasy leaguers, and fans are tracking and analyzing a player's...
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Parking on Campus a Snap With Carleton Professor's App
Carleton University computer science professor Dwight Deugo has developed iParked.ca, a system that enables users to pay for parking at campus lots with a text...
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The Ground-Breaking Tech of 'toy Story 3'
At Pixar Animation Studios, which will release "Toy Story 3," its 11th feature film, on Friday, each new movie is an opportunity both to notch huge box office numbers...
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19th-Century Tech Makes a Smarter iPhone
Rarely has 19th-century technology stirred an audience of 21st-century technophiles as it did last week when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs revealed that the next-generation...
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A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures
Ten years after President Bill Clinton announced that the first draft of the human genome was complete, medicine has yet to see any large part of the promised benefits...
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New System Developed for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
University of Grenada researchers have developed techniques that enable the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease by analyzing computer images.
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AI That Picks Stocks Better Than the Pros
A computer science professor uses textual analysis of articles from Yahoo Finance to beat the market.
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Invisibility Cloaks and How to se Them
The "invisibility cloaks" being made in labs today can hide objects when viewed from a wide range of directions and in visible light--both considered implausible...
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Free, Open Virtual Laboratory For Infectious Diseases
Doctors around the world will soon have a powerful new tool at their disposal in the fight against infectious diseases: a virtual laboratory that will help them...
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Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Oil Along Atlantic Coast
A detailed computer modeling study released today indicates that oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico might soon extend along thousands of miles of...
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sing Neural Networks to Classify Music
University of Hong Kong students trained a convolutional neural network built for image recognition to classify music.
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New Automated Tool 'debugs' Nuclear Weapon Simulations
Purdue University researchers, working with high-performance computing experts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have created an automated program to "debug"...
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Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
Loyalty cards--those little paper cards that promise a free sandwich or coffee after 10 purchases, but instead get lost or forgotten--are going mobile.
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Found in Translation: A Global Village
European scientists have developed groundbreaking technology to enable machine translation using statistical analysis. Now linguistic diversity can be found in...
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Spinoffs Reveal Earth Benefits of Nasa Technologies
Congressional staffers in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20 were wondering why a robot was roaming the halls. Those who followed the robot were led to...
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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