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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and real-time streaming services and push notifications.
Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition
Messages may be retried. Idempotence means that's OK.
Comparative Analysis of Protein Networks: Hard Problems, Practical Solutions
Examining tools that provide valuable insight about molecular components within a cell.
Technical Perspective: Best Algorithms + Best Computers = Powerful Match
Say you want to simulate the motion over time of the stars in a galaxy to learn about how galaxies formed and why the universe appears as it does. Is it feasible on a single processor? Sadly, even using today's fastest single processor, the answer is "no."
A Massively Parallel Adaptive Fast Multipole Method on Heterogeneous Architectures
We describe a parallel fast multipole method for highly nonuniform distributions of particles. We employ both distributed memory parallelism and shared memory parallelism to rapidly evaluate two-body nonoscillatory potentials in three dimensions on heterogeneous high performance computing architectures.
Thanks to new research initiatives, autonomous humanoid robots are inching closer to reality.
Automating Scientific Discovery
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.
Technical Perspective: Building Robust Dynamical Simulation Systems
Computational power has been widely used to predict the behavior of dynamical systems using computer simulations, which are often used as an adjunct to or substitute for a dynamical system when a simple closed form analytic solution is not possible.
Asynchronous Contact Mechanics
Physicists have long observed physical phenomena and developed mathematical models to describe them. The advent of computers has allowed us to implement these models as software in a computational environment, launching the field of physical simulation.
Voice recognition programs like Siri are now capable of understanding spoken commands, recognizing a conversation's context, and answering questions in a personable manner.
Putting the ‘Smarts’ Into the Smart Grid: A Grand Challenge For Artificial Intelligence
A research agenda for making the smart grid a reality.
Judea Pearl Wins 2011 ACM Turing Award
Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the winner of the 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
Parkagent Seeks to Reduce Urban Traffic Congestion
Researchers in Israel and the Netherlands have teamed up to create PARKAGENT, a spatially explicit agent-based software model designed to assess and optimize urban parking policies.
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Mobicon: A Mobile Context-Monitoring Platform
User context is defined by data generated through everyday physical activity in sensor-rich, resource-limited mobile environments.
The Grand Challenge of Computer Go: Monte Carlo Tree Search and Extensions
The ancient oriental game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. However, computer Go programs based on Monte-Carlo tree search now play at human-master levels and are beginning to challenge top professional players.
Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.
Technical Perspective: The Benefits of Capability-Based Protection
Affordable personal computing hardware and the usable GUI-based PC operating systems made the vision of "a computer on every desktop and in every home" a reality. Thanks to the Internet, personal computers did not remain personal for very long.
Technical Perspective: A New Way to Search Game Trees
Researchers in artificial intelligence know that computers still lag far behind human levels of play in many games of strategy. One such contest of wits is Go, which remains a stronghold of human superiority. That may be about to change.
A Taste of Capsicum: Practical Capabilities For Unix
Capsicum is a lightweight operating system capability and sandbox framework planned for inclusion in FreeBSD 9. Capsicum extends, rather than replaces, UNIX APIs, providing new kernel primitives and a userspace sandbox API. These tools support decomposition of monolithic UNIX applications into compartmentalized logical applications.
Embodied and disembodied computing at the Turing Centenary.
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