Communications of the ACM
AI Will Augment SEO
Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
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Virtual Duplicates
Digital twins aim to model reality so we can see how it changes.
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Catching the Fakes
Applying neural networks to images helps identify counterfeit goods.
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Fact-Finding Mission
Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
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Tracking COVID, Discreetly
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
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Your Wish Is My CMD
Artificial intelligence could automate software coding.
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An Animating Spirit
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, overcame industry indifference to found Pixar and put their computer graphics expertise to work. ...
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Seeing Through Walls
Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.
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A New Movement in Seismology
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.
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Going Serverless
Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the...
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Thinking Deeply to Make Better Speech
More work is needed to make synthesized speech more natural, easier to understand, and more pleasant to hear.
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Seeing More Clearly
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.
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Split Second
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
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Forging Relationships
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.
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Plenty of Proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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Visualizing Sound
New techniques capture speech by looking for the vibrations it causes.
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Playing at Health
Developers try to tap the beneficial effects of video games.
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Proofs Probable
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
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Decoding Dementia
Computer models may help neurologists unlock the secrets of brain disorders, from Alzheimer's to cancer.
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Life in Simulation
Computational models are tackling the complexity of biology, from single-celled microbes to human organs.12