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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that...
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The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting
The Wozniak Lounge, located on the northern side of campus at the University of California, Berkeley, looks like it was decorated by engineers, to the extent that...
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After 2,500 Years, a Chinese Gaming Mystery Is Solved
Computer scientist John Tromp has discovered the total number of legal positions on Go's standard 19x19 board.
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ACM Inducts Fellows
ACM has recognized 42 of its members for significant contributions to the development and application of computing, in areas ranging from data management and spoken...
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How a Supervillain (or a Hacker in His Basement) Could Destroy the Internet
Network experts share their greatest fears about attacks and accidents that could destroy the Internet.
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In Privacy Law, It's the U.S. vs. the World
Snowden revelations force changes, but Facebook (and others) resist.
From ACM Careers
Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.
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Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...
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This Smartphone Technology 3d Maps Your Meal and Counts Its Calories
NutriRay3D is a new laser-mapping technology/smartphone app that lets users point a smartphone at food and get an accurate count of its total calories and nutrition...
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'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists
Kaleigh Clary, a computer science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, drove down to offer a day of free work for the American Museum of...
From ACM Opinion
Wikipedia Turns 15
It must be difficult for the roughly half a billion people who visit Wikipedia every month to remember a world without the free online encyclopedia.
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Virtual Reality For Motor Rehabilitation of the Shoulder
Carlos III University of Madrid researchers have developed a virtual-reality system for motor rehabilitation of the shoulder.
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New Lab to Give Nation's Researchers Remote Access to Robots
The Georgia Institute of Technology is building the Robotarium, a laboratory that will enable roboticists to conduct experiments remotely.
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The Bbva Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Goes to Stephen Cook
Cook expanded on Turing's concept of computability ... to include efficiency, so we can ascertain which problems are worth trying to solve and which not.
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Can Computer Games Improve the Ability to Study?
University of Bristol researchers conducted a brain-imaging study showing technological game-playing can involve brain activity that supports learning.
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.s. STEM Funding Still Reeling From Budget Cuts
Some U.S. agencies and higher education institutions that lost much-needed federal grants to sequestration may still be left wanting.
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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...
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New Digital Tools Could Help Speed Up Cultural Heritage Work
The European Union-funded PRESIOUS project is developing software tools intended to facilitate the work of archaeologists via computer simulations.
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MIT Researchers Want to Teach Robots How to Wash Dishes
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...
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