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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A Smoother Street View
Microsoft researchers have developed Street Slide, street-level imaging software that could help people find locations more quickly on the Web, as well as leave...
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A Smoother Street View
Microsoft's new toy allows for a more seamless walk down an online avenue.
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So Many Bugs, So Little Time
Tools that find serious bugs automatically could lead to safer, more stable software.
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Perfecting Synthetic Sounds For Animated Worlds
If computers can generate the imagery in animated movies like Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me, why can't they also generate the sound effects to go with them?
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Cut-and-Paste Simplicity For Computer Animation
Tools developed by European researchers bring cut-and-paste simplicity to gaming and animation. Users will be able to cut-and-paste complex elements like emotion...
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Xml Pioneer Pitches Functional Programming For Concurrency
XML co-inventor Tim Bray says that functional programming, rather than threads, is the best option for programmers developing code for multicore processors.
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New Languages, and Why We Need Them
Creators of two dozen new programming languages—some designed to enable powerful new Web applications and mobile devices—presented their work last week in Portland...
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Gödel Prize and Other CS Awards
Sanjeev Arora, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, and other researchers are recognized for their contributions to computer science.
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Ads that Match a Web Page's Images
Using the contents of images or videos to target Web ads could improve click-through.
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Fewer Ads, More Clicks
Search engines get smarter at predicting when we'll respond to a pitch.
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A Trip Beyond the Edge of the Observable Universe
If you want to see what outer space looks like, there may be no better way to do so than to have Carter Emmart take you on a ride there.
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Spending Soars on Internet's Plumbing
Behind the recovery in business spending is a surge in purchases of the computers that form the backbone of the Internet, as companies scramble to meet growing...
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You Want My Personal Data? Reward Me For It
Life, as they say, imitates art. And the way things work commercially today across much of the Web recalls that chapter in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” where...
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Researchers Create Sounds of Animated Things Breaking
A delicate wine glass shatters on the floor. A rock is thrown through a window. A child smashes his piggy bank. Dramatic moments like these in an animated movie...
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Google May Know Your Desires Before You Do
Google attempts to return relevant search results in the blink of an eye. But in future it could go one better, delivering search results to its users even before...
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Roila, a New Spoken Language Designed For Robots
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers are developing the Robot Interaction Language (ROILA), a spoken language for robots that is meant to be easy for...
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Safety in Numbers
Mathematicians and computer scientists are working on equations and algorithms that exhibit potential as terrorism countermeasures. These include powerful algorithms...
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DARPA Issues Call For Computer Science Devotees
DARPA wants university-based researchers to come up with the next big computer science idea—for the military.
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Did a Speeding Car Just Jump Out of My Cellphone?
Smartphones are getting smarter. Now some new models even offer games or television broadcasts in three dimensions—and you don’t need special glasses to see the...
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