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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The Drive Toward Hydrogen Vehicles Just Got Shorter
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Alabama have revealed a new single-stage method for recharging the hydrogen storage compound...
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New Software Calculates Heating Costs in Greenhouse Operations
Jonathan Frantz, a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher, and colleagues have developed Virtual Grower, software for calculating heating costs in greenhouse...
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Terahertz Superchips Can Do It All
Cornell University researchers have developed terahertz radiation microchips that could be used in a wide range of medical and scientific applications, including...
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Https Is More Secure, So Why Isn't the Web Using It?
You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to Twitter...
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Browser Communication Boost Back on Track
After a security problem derailed it last year, a technology to open a high-speed browser communications link is getting back on track again.
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British Computer Scientists Reboot
After a year of turmoil, computer scientists at King's College London have retained their jobs, but substantial challenges lie ahead.
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Social Games, Virtual Goods
The popularity of virtual goods and currencies in online gaming is changing how people think and act about money.
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Engineering Sensation in Artificial Limbs
Advancements in mobile electronics have led to several prosthetics innovations in recent years, but providing reliable touch sensations to users remains an elusive...
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The Quest For Randomness
It's not easy to generate a string of numbers that lack any pattern or rule, or even to define exactly what randomness means.
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Extremely Fast Mram Data Storage Within Reach
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt researchers have developed a type of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) equipped with a special chip connection that results...
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Taiwan Researchers Turn to Silk for Flexible E-Devices
Silk membranes can be used for flexible e-book readers, LED displays, and RFID tools, according to researchers at the National Tsing Hua University. A team has...
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Software Progress Beats Moore
One of the old jokes in computing is that what the hardware giveth, the software taketh away.
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World Mobile Data Traffic to Explode by Factor of 26 by 2015
Anyone who thinks that the Internet revolution is in anything but its early phase had better take a look at Cisco's latest Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast.
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China's Homemade Supercomputer May Be the Most Efficient Ever
China plans to launch a new homegrown supercomputer, the Dawning 6000, this summer, and it "could rival even Blue Gene/Q systems for performance per watt supremacy...
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Increasing Processor Efficiency By Matching Power with Demand
For decades, chipmakers strove to develop the fastest and most powerful chips possible and damn the amount of electricity needed to power them, but these days...
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The Next Operating System
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance—and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
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Memristors: Pass or Fail?
The device may revolutionize data storage, replacing flash memory and perhaps even disks. Whether they can be reliably and cheaply manufactured, though, is an open...
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Evaluating Government Funding
A presidential report asserts the value of U.S. government investments in the cross-agency Networking and Information Technology Research...
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Twitter as Medium and Message
Researchers are mining Twitter's vast flow of data to measure public sentiment, follow political activity, and detect earthquakes and flu outbreaks.
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