Brain Science Helps Computers Separate Speakers in a Crowded Room
People can listen to a single voice amid the hubbub of a cocktail party; algorithms can help computers do it, too.
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Natural Language Generation software begins delivering on the promise of automated prose.
Designing Interactive Memory Joggers
Texts, photos, and videos are the fodder of memories, which require appropriate cues to materialize those memories from custom-designed hardware, says one researcher.
New systems can help you not only learn to understand a second language, but how to pronounce it correctly.
Digital technologies are driving new business models and changing the ways society views products and services.
Artificial Precognition ses Data to See the Future
Using large data sets and machine learning to recognize unseen patterns.
How the new field of cloud robotics will impact intelligent machines.
Court Reaffirms Ftc Authority to Prosecute Cybersecurity Breaches
The ruling underscores corporate responsibility to protect consumer data.
Automotive Systems Get Smarter
Automotive infotainment systems are driving changes to automobiles, and to driver behavior.
Dismantling the Barriers to Entry
We have to choose to build a Web that is accessible to everyone.
Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon
The Dissent system aims for a quantifiably secure, collective approach to anonymous communication online.
Discovering Genes Involved in Disease and the Mystery of Missing Heritability
The challenge of missing heritability offers great contribution options for computer scientists.
Information processing gives spiritual meaning to life, for those who make it their life's work.
Glasses Foil Facial Recognition
The PrivacyVisor prevents facial detection/identification programs based on Haar-like feature recognition.
The world's fastest residential Internet may be found in the middle of the English countryside, built by farmers for farmers.
Digital Receipts Help Solve a Growing Paper Problem
Retailers explore alternatives to the increasingly lengthy paper receipt.
Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence
AI has seen great advances of many kinds recently, but there is one critical area where progress has been extremely slow: ordinary commonsense.
Should Conferences Meet Journals and Where?: A Proposal For 'PACM'
The ACM Publications Board Conferences Committee has been working on a proposal that brings together conference and journal publishing. Here, we offer some background leading up to this proposal, summarize the plan, and solicit your input.
How apps like Inkl and SmartNews are overcoming the challenges of aggregation to win over content publishers and users alike.
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
The Pros and Cons of the ‘PACM’ Proposal: Point
In "Should Conferences Meet Journals and Where?" ACM Publications Board co-chairs Joseph A. Konstan and Jack W. Davidson introduce a proposal that would interweave conference and journal publishing. Here, computer scientist Kathryn S. McKinley argues for and against the proposal.
Trustworthy Hardware from Untrusted Components
This defense-in-depth approach uses static analysis and runtime mechanisms to detect and silence hardware backdoors.
On the Categorization of Scientific Citation Profiles in Computer Science
A new dynamic growth model reveals how citation networks evolve over time, pointing the way toward reformulated scientometrics.
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