Communications of the ACM
The Promise of Holographic Displays
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Study Shows Potential of DNA-Based Data-Structures Systems
A team led by researchers from Newcastle University created new dynamic DNA data structures that can store and retrieve information in an ordered manner from DNA...
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Stanford Researchers Use AI to Unlock Extreme Weather Mysteries
New machine-learning approach helps scientists understand increased frequency of extreme precipitation days in the Midwest
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Wildfire Simulation Heats Up
Computer simulations can predict the spread of wildfires through sections of a real forest
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AI Learns by Doing More with Less
Sparsity and energy constraints guide learning and communications in silicon neuronal networks
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Humans and Algorithms Struggle to Read Emotions When Faces Are Obscured
Study compares accuracy of humans versus artificial systems in deciphering emotions of people in face masks and sunglasses
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Brain Connectivity Can Build Better AI
Artificial neural networks modeled on real brains can perform cognitive tasks
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AI Knows Where Your Proteins Go
Machine learning able to predict subcellular locations of functionally related proteins
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Novel ASIC Implements Post-Quantum Cryptography
Chip efficiently implements post-quantum cryptography to better protect against future hacker attacks using quantum computers
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How Chemical Reactions Compute
Harvard Professor Juan-Pérez Mercader sees chemical reactions as a kind of computation, and says molecules have enormous potential as tools of computation.
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Predicting the Risk of Schizophrenia Using Machine-Learning and a Blood Test
Innovative strategy analyzes specific regions of CoRSIVs genome to offer possibility of early diagnosis
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Better Security Through Obfuscation
The quest to find greater security through obscurity.
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Economists Know How to Break Your Phone Addiction
The study concludes about a third of social media use are linked to self-control problems and habit formation engendered by our digital technology.
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Formal Software Verification Measures Up
Verified coding techniques use mathematical proofs to ensure code is error-free and hacker-resistant. Can the approach revolutionize software?
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Getting Down to Basics
2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman helped develop formal language theory, invented efficient algorithms to drive the tasks of a...
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Researchers Develop Protocols to Validate Integrity of ML Models
Cryptographic algorithms called zero-knowledge proof protocols are a mathematical method that enables the owner of an ML model to generate a succinct proof to demonstrate...
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Clues on How Networks Such as Twitter Are Organized to Respond to Viral News
A thesis defended at Spain's Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) analyses the structural patterns of complex systems such as social networks.
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Higher Education Readies for a Quantum Leap
The nascent quantum industry is calling on higher education to begin preparing a quantum workforce with a broader, less specialized range of technical skills.
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The Worsening State of Ransomware
Sophisticated, dangerous ransomware is the new normal … and there is no simple fix.
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Deep Learning Speeds MRI Scans
Machine intelligence significantly reduces the time needed for an MRI scan, which can help reduce patient anxiety.
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