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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How Robots Will Beat Humans at Billiards
Once a year, at the International Computer Olympiad, teams pit their AI software against others' in a variety of nerd-appropriate sports: chess, go, backgammon...
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The First Computer Musician
In 1957 a 30-year-old engineer named Max Mathews got an I.B.M. 704 mainframe computer at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, to generate 17 seconds...
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Sony's Kaz Hirai on the Psn Hack
Sony's deputy president about the PlayStation Network hack, PS Vita and PS3's enduring appeal.
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All the News That's Fit For You
Personalized news promises to make daily journalism profitable again, but technical and cultural obstacles have slowed the industry's adoption of automated personalization...
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The Promise of Flexible Displays
New screen materials could lead to portable devices that are anything but rectangular, flat, and unbendable.
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Beauty and Elegance
Leslie Valiant talks about machine learning; parallel computing, and his quest for simplicity.
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Biology-Inspired Networking
Researchers have developed a new networking algorithm, modeled after the neurological development of the fruit fly, to help distributed networks self-organize more...
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Amusement Park Rides that Know When You're Scared
What would it feel like to ride on a roller-coaster that reacts to your emotional state? Visitors to amusement parks may soon be able to find out.
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Five Gadgets that Will Be Dead in Five Years
If there's one thing that's predictable in the technology world, it's that things change. Products that were commonplace 10 years ago (PDAs, CRT televisions,...
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Parting with Privacy with a Quick Click
When Scott Fitzsimones turned 13, he got an iPhone, set up accounts for Facebook and Pandora and went on an apps downloading spree. At the same time, the new...
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Chinese Entrepreneurs See Apple's App Store as Entryway to Global Market
Lu Miao speaks very little English. He's never traveled outside of Asia. He's not a software engineer. But in a few short months, he became the founder of a successful...
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Customers Had More Faith in Sony Than It Deserved
In the wake of the recent hacking attacks, which compromised more than 100 million account records on its PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment services...
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China Sets Up Office For Internet Information Management
The Chinese government announced Wednesday the setting up of an office to manage Internet information in a statement of the State Council General Office. The...
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May 5, 1992: Wolfenstein 3-D Shoots First-Person Shooter Into Stardom
Id Software releases Wolfenstein 3-D, launching a huge computer-game category.
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Sony Brings In High-Tech Sleuths
New details emerged about Sony Corp.'s investigation into one of the biggest data breaches in history, as the company attempts to piece together who stole personal...
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China: 900 Million Mobile sers Asking Themselves "iphone or Android"?
In Apple's second quarter, iPhone sales in China surged nearly 250% year over year, making the country the iPhone's fastest growing market—a title it will retain...
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Learning Science Through Gaming
An MIT-produced interactive game, "Vanished," now being played by thousands online, offers a novel experiment in alternative science education.
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Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.
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Deus Ex Machina
Computational metaphysics is helping philosophers answer age-old questions, such as whether God exists.
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