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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Mitsubishi Planning Predictive User Interface For Cars
Mitsubishi Electric recently demonstrated prototype technology that predicts in-car operations.
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What Do Data Brokers Know About Me?
I once ran into a friend and her husband at the playground in our neighborhood in Manhattan.
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Brands Take Advantage of Hci Technologies
Technologies demonstrated in motion pictures are coming to life for advertisers.
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Playing at Health
Developers try to tap the beneficial effects of video games.
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Reading Brains
The first steps have been taken toward enabling a computer to perceive one's thoughts.
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Mitsubishi Develops Predictive Agent to Anticipate Drivers' Needs
Mitsubishi researchers are developing a vehicle assistant system that can anticipate driver needs when controlling car navigation systems and stereos.
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Researchers Show High-Speed Laser Communications Device For Space
A prototype array can read more information than usual from single particles of light, and can achieve much higher data rates than conventional systems.
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Networking Nature
Conservation is for the first time beginning to operate at the pace and on the scale necessary to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet’s most intractable...
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Connected Cars: Apps, Networks, and Storage on Wheels
Mobile apps are being designed to help make transportation safer, but a better way is needed to integrate information services within the transportation segment...
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Computer Scientist Looks For Deeper Meaning in Webcam Videos
A University of Kentucky professor is researching new ways to use computers to understand images.
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Nyc's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing
New York subway riders first were promised futuristic touchscreen wayfinding maps a year ago.
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Open Data vs. the Flood: How High-Tech Is Helping Venice Deal With High Tides
The Acqualta project in Venice, aims to engage citizens in an effort to monitor flooding in the city's canals using open data and sensor technology.
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a, Google Creating Digital Maps to Help Preserve Cultural Heritage of Russian Community
Researchers are developing digital maps of locations that hold cultural and historic significance to indigenous communities from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
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Graphene Rival 'phosphorene' Is Born to Be a Transistor
Phosphorene, which is structurally similar to graphene, is a natural semiconductor that could be used in the next generation of computers.
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Are You a Super-Spreader of Disease?
New research could yield insight into monitoring a specific group of disease carriers to identify nascent outbreaks early and help prevent epidemics.
From Communications of the ACM
Should Everybody Learn to Code?
Not everyone needs coding skills, but learning how to think like a programmer can be useful in many disciplines.
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ACM Fellows Inducted
ACM has recognized 50 of its members for their contributions to computing that are driving innovations across multiple domains and disciplines.
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E-Whiskers: Berkeley Researchers Develop Highly Sensitive Tactile Sensors For Robotics and Other Applications
Researchers have created tactile sensors similar to the highly sensitive whiskers of cats and rats from composite films of carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles...
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Byu's Smart Object Recognition Algorithm Doesn't Need Humans
Researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can accurately identify objects in images or video sequences without human calibration.
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