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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How Game Theory Changed Poker
Researchers at the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group pioneered game theory mathematics that transformed how professional poker players approach...
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Reaching Across the Aisle to Find the Algorithms of Vision
Two styles of understanding visual processing—discriminative and generative approaches—have guided researchers on separate paths for decades, but now are being...
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'Pop-Up' Electronic Sensors Could Detect When Heart Cells Misbehave
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a tool that monitors the electrical activity inside heart cells using tiny "pop-up" sensors that...
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Converting Laws to Programs
In highly regulated industries, it is critical that laws are translated precisely into code that reflects their intent.
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Monetizing Your Personal Data
What is your private data worth, to you and to the companies willing to pay you for it?
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Trouble at the Source
Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.
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The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality
A heads-up look at augmented reality head-up displays.
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Chinese Computer Scientist Awarded Kyoto Prize for Work Playing 'Vital Role in Modern Society'
Japan's Inamori Foundation has named Chinese computer scientist Andrew Yao Chi-chih recipient of the international Kyoto Prize in advanced technology.
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Algorithmic Poverty
Algorithms can have a devastating impact on people's lives, especially if they already are struggling economically.
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Amazon Brings Its Cashierless Tech to Two Whole Foods Stores
Just Walk Out tech lets shoppers skip the checkout line
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Professor Helps Achieve Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Develops theory behind record-setting experiment for most accurate entangling gate ever demonstrated without lasers
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Researchers Develop Tool for Analyzing Large Superconducting Circuits
Method could help push forward the field of quantum computing
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Smart Helmet Rapidly Assesses Stroke Patients
Uses EM waves to distinguish the size, position, and type of stroke
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Using Adversarial Attacks to Refine Molecular Energy Predictions
MIT researchers find new way to quantify the uncertainty in molecular energies predicted by neural networks
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Computer Scientists Create Search Systems to Limit COVID-19 Misinformation
New system increases the correctness and reliability of health-related searches by 80%
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Non-Fungible Tokens and the Future of Art
A new blockchain-based technology is changing how the art world works, and changing how we think about asset ownership in the process.
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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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