A mobile application can generate situation-specific communication boards automatically from photographs.
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Technical Perspective: Can AI Keep Accessible Communication in the Picture?
Recent research explores how AI can use photos to support communication, especially for people with communication impairments.
The LiteLoad project is working to quantify the impact of poor connectivity in rural areas near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee, as a testing ground.
Is It Math or CS? Or Is It Both?
Igor Markov's “Reevaluating Google’s Reinforcement Learning for IC Macro Placement” in the November 2024 Communications looks at two non-peer-reviewed papers and makes baseless allegations of scientific integrity issues, all already found to be without merit.
Automated valuation models made home prices more equitable in unexpected ways: Black homeowners were paid more on average, and whites tens of thousands less.
Access to your production environment must be guarded jealously, even among your own team of developers.
UPI 123Pay: India’s Innovation in Mobile Payments
The payment system was developed for India's 400 million users of simple feature phones instead of smartphones.
To insist that your strategy is right even when nearly all other firms have concluded the opposite smacks of hubris and inflexibility.
It’s Another Attack on the U.S. Capitol
Using the same password for business and personal accounts is a common but risky practice that creates vulnerabilities.
Stealth aircraft can foil radar but can't dodge detection by Starlink satellite signals, a game-changer for aerial protection.
Addressing the Data Storage Crisis
The expense of HDD and SSD is pushing the development and consideration of alternate storage options.
Controlling AI’s Growing Energy Needs
Lower-energy options are being sought to reduce the energy footprint of AI training.
HammingMesh: A Network Topology for Large-Scale Deep Learning
HammingMesh is optimized specifically for ML workloads and their communication patterns.
Technical Perspective: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What Is the Best Topology of Them All?
Combining torus topologies’ cost-effectiveness and switched topologies’ performance into a novel network topology.
Transactions and Serverless are Made for Each Other
Serverless cloud platforms should be used to deploy stateful applications.
A Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt Could Change Imaging as We Know It
Innovative methods and materials led to a tiny meta-optics camera able to produce full-color images equal in quality to those produced by conventional cameras.
Belt and Braces: When Federated Learning Meets Differential Privacy
An overview of differential privacy-enabled federated learning with a focus on utility optimization techniques.
Laser communications technology demonstrated aboard NASA's Psyche spacecraft could make the 140-million-mile distance from Earth to Mars feel much closer.
Generative AI as an Icebreaker to Help Us Accept Other Ways of Thinking
The icebreaker tool uses Generative AI to reveal connections between users while maintaining the rigor of their specialist disciplines.
Experts want proof that Google’s AlphaChip is equal to, let alone better than, available chip design methods.
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Heats Up
Compounds that display superconductivity are incredibly rare, and many require specific pressures or conditions to perform in a desired manner.
How AI Is Helping Doctors Make Better Decisions in Healthcare
AI-based decision support systems are like working alongside a really knowledgeable colleague to confirm you’re on the right track.
Reevaluating Google’s Reinforcement Learning for IC Macro Placement
Crosschecked data indicates that the integrity of a 2021 paper in Nature by Mirhoseini, Goldie, et al. is substantially undermined, owing to errors in conduct, analysis, and reporting.
Leveraging Graph Databases for Fraud Detection in Financial Systems
Graph databases offer a more effective approach than traditional tools to identifying fraudulent financial activities.
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