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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Geeks V Government: The Battle Over Public Key Cryptography
Two graduate students stood silently beside a lectern, listening as their professor presented their work to a conference.
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'iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing
Scientists have discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at the same distance that we orbit our sun.
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Cassini's First Grand Finale Dive: Milestones
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to make its first dive through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017.
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The Next Big Hit in Molecule Hollywood
Chemists are dreamers. Every day, they imagine molecules floating in space, with atoms moving about in a stately dance.
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Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...
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Google's New Chip Is a Stepping Stone to Quantum Computing Supremacy
A team of Google researchers by the end of this year plans to build a device that achieves "quantum supremacy."
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Inside China's Plans For World Robot Domination
Scenes from China's quest to dominate the robotic future: At startup E-Deodar, a human-looking droid serves coffee to employees who are building $15,000 industrial...
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This Artificial Intelligence Turns Horses Into Zebras--and Winter Into Summer
A new model enables users to transform images in a "cycle consistent" way, so any changes to the original image are expected to remain fully reversible.
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Combating Cancer With Data
Supercomputers will sift massive amounts of data in search of therapies that work.
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Making Chips Smarter
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are motivating researchers to design and build new chips to support different computing models.
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Bionics in Competition
Developers of innovative assistive devices compete as a means of networking with each other.
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Dna's Secret Weapon Against Knots and Tangles
Leonid Mirny swivels in his office chair and grabs the power cord for his laptop.
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On Venus, Tectonics Without the Plates
As we've explored the Solar System, some items we're familiar with from Earth's geology have kept appearing in new places.
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What Netflix Can Teach S About Treating Cancer
Johns Hopkins University professor Elana Fertig details her research to enhance precision medicine in cancer, using the techniques developed for finding patterns...
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Nasa's Mars Rover Opportunity Leaves 'tribulation'
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is departing "Cape Tribulation," a crater-rim segment it has explored since late 2014, southbound for its next destination...
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50 Years Ago, a Computer Pioneer Got a New York Subway Race Rolling
Fifty years ago, Peter Samson, one of the inventors of Spacewar, considered the world's first video game, began another craze underground.
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'space Fabric' Links Fashion and Engineering
Raul Polit Casillas grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion designer in Spain, and, at a young age, he was intrigued by how materials are used for design...
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Find Out If a Robot Will Take Your Job
At a community college in upstate New York, 12 cafeteria workers recently learned that they will lose their jobs—and be replaced by self-serve machines.
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Could the S Take Out North Korea's Missiles Before Launch?
A failed missile launch in North Korea Sunday has brought renewed attention to reports that the United States is trying to degrade North Korea's missile capabilities...
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