Communications of the ACM
The Promise of Holographic Displays
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Formalizing Fairness
Algorithmic fairness aims to remedy issues stemming from algorithmic bias.
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Solving for Why
A focus on causality is promising to help researchers overcome shortcomings that have bedeviled more traditional approaches to artificial intelligence.
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A Model Restoration
The architect of the Sagrada Familia appears to have done parametric modeling in his head; software is helping to complete the structure a century later.
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Artificial (Emotional) Intelligence
Enabled by advances in computing power and neural networks, machines are getting better at recognizing and dealing with human emotions.
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Bringing Holography to Light
While 3D technologies that make headlines are not truly holographic, holographic techniques are furthering advances in important applications such as biomedical...
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Reinforcement Renaissance
The power of deep neural networks has sparked renewed interest in reinforcement learning, with applications to games, robotics, and beyond.
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Accelerating Search
The latest in machine learning helps high-energy physicists handle the enormous amounts of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider.
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Garbage In, Info Out
Security researchers used malware to investigate large-scale Internet censorship in Egypt and Libya.
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Patently Inadequate
The biggest change to U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years brings many changes, but fails to solve the software industry's most vexing problems.
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Success at 16
A high school student wins first prize from ACM for developing a faster keyboard layout.
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All the News That's Fit For You
Personalized news promises to make daily journalism profitable again, but technical and cultural obstacles have slowed the industry's adoption of automated personalization...
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Deus Ex Machina
Computational metaphysics is helping philosophers answer age-old questions, such as whether God exists.
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India's Elephantine Effort
An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.
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CSEdWeek Expands Its Reach
The second Computer Science Education Week is showing students, parents, and educators why computer science is important.
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Degrees, Distance, and Dollars
The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students—but not necessarily at a lower cost.
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