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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New Technology Could Fundamentally Change Future Wireless Communications
A new technique that can estimate and cancel out interference from a transmission allows a radio device to simultaneously transmit and receive data on the same...
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Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Avatar
Researchers have developed a system to track the facial expressions of users wearing a virtual-reality headset and transfer them to a virtual avatar.
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Real-Time Data Sharing Can Make Airports Greener
University of Lincoln researchers have created a new framework designed to reduce delays, improve efficiency, and curb pollution at major international airports...
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Wolfram's Id Project Launch Touts Imageidentify Function
Wolfram Research's artificial intelligence-based Language Identification Project is equipped with an ImageIdentify function.
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Better Predicting Flu Outbreaks With Wikipedia
A team of researchers has developed a method for forecasting the course of upcoming flu seasons by analyzing the views of Wikipedia articles.
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Project Oxford Apis Offer Facial, Voice Recognition Capabilities
Microsoft's age-guessing site, How-Old.net, is powered by Project Oxford, which now offers tools developers can use to incorporate intelligence into their apps.
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Fast Track Program Invites Non-Traditional Roboticists to Help Bolster National Security
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotics Fast Track program aims to create a system for the rapid, cost-effective development of new robotics...
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Forging Relationships
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.
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Estonia: A Model For E-Government
Over the next decade, the population of Estonia is expected to soar more than 600% as the country becomes the first in the world to open its borders to an influx...
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Between the Lines
Smartphone apps are driving changes in the way people park. Sensors, crowdsourcing, and big data are making it easier to find open parking spots.
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Plenty of Proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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Humans Out-Play an AI at Texas Hold 'em—for Now
In 1997 chess master Gary Kasparov went to battle against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a landmark match. After six games Deep Blue prevailed, marking the...
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Computing at the Speed of Light
A new ultracompact beamsplitter for dividing light waves into separate channels could lead to computers that work millions of times faster than conventional machines...
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Nasa Soil Moisture Mission Begins Science Operations
NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed has begun science operations.
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New Computer Bug Exposes Broad Security Flaws
An international team has discovered an Internet bug that enables an attacker to trick a Web browser into believing it is using a regular key rather than the export...
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To Handle Big Data, Shrink It
A new algorithm finds the smallest possible approximation of a matrix that guarantees reliable computations.
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New Chip Architecture May Provide Foundation for Quantum Computer
A new device that enables more electrodes to be placed on a chip could bring the field one step closer to a quantum computer that can perform complex algorithms...
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A Nano-Transistor Assesses Your Health Via Sweat
A new ultra-low-power sensor enables real-time scanning of the contents of liquids such as perspiration.
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The Machine Vision Algorithm Beating Art Historians at Their Own Game
Recent advances in machine learning such as deep convolutional neural networks are enabling the development of machines that perform pattern-recognition tasks.
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