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 Humanities Go Google
Stanford University's Literature Lab attempts to probe the evolution of literary style by using computer algorithms to sort, interrogate, and interpret some 1,000...
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
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Lights, Camera, Real-Time 3-D Action!
The 3-D movies on today's cinema screens rely on visual tricks to cope with fast action. A new generation, produced at lower cost but delivering higher quality...
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Engineer Goes from Race Track to Classroom
Moving from the inner circles of professional automotive racing to the halls of academia has given Andrew Borme the second life he's wanted—teaching a new generation...
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MIT Gestural Gloves Bring Back the '80s
Somewhere in your closet there's a pair of gloves straight out of "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo." Well, if you dust them off and fire up your Webcam, you'll have...
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Japanese Couple First in the World to Be Wed By a Robot
A Japanese professor of robotics and his bride were the first couple in the world officially wed by a robot.
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Teachers Plan to Teach in 3d
Computer scientists at the universities of Hertfordshire and Southern Denmark are on track to finish building technology that would bring virtual reality to Europe's...
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Why Labs Love Gaming Hardware
Blasting zombies may seem to have little to do with serious research, but video game hardware is helping scientists in a variety of ways including helping them...
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Video Games and Virtual Reality Proven Helpful as Pain Relievers
Children and adults with acute and chronic pain receive some analgesic benefit when they become immersed in video game action, and virtual reality is proving to...
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Project Puts 1M Books Online for Blind, Dyslexic
The nonprofit Internet Archive announced a new effort to more than double the number of books in its digital database that can be used by the visually impaired. ...
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Researcher ses Wii Remote to Teach Computer Engineering
Tom Daniels, an Iowa State University assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has figured out how to use Wii Remotes as a teaching tool in introductory...
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Audiences, and Hollywood, Flock to Smartphones
It might be hard to imagine watching "The Office" on a screen no bigger than a business card. But tens of thousands of people--by the most conservative estimate...
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Today's Youngsters Prefer Computer Games to Holidays
A British survey has revealed that the young generation would rather stay at home and play computer games than go on a holiday. The report by Future of Free Time...
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Augmented-Reality Floor Tiling
Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot....
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Point and Click Your Phone to Get the Inside Dope on Just About Anything
Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design are developing augmented reality applications for use on mobile phones.
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Touch, Gesture, Speak, Scan: A 'nui' For Enterprise It
Microsoft's Natal natural user interface (NUI) features heat-sensing displays and an infrared camera and is designed to work as a game controller for the Xbox.
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Cloud Computing and Developing Nations
For a growing number of organizations worldwide, cloud computing offers a quick and affordable way to tap into IT infrastructure as an Internet service. But obstacles...
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Modeling the Astronomical
Advances in computer technology have changed the way astronomers see and study the universe.
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