The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
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Software called TLDR (too long, didn't read) automatically produces one-sentence abstracts of research papers.
Nature From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2020
A new artificial intelligence program beat elite professional poker players at six-player no-limit Texas hold'em poker.
Nature From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2019
Art historians are starting to utilize machine learning to provide empirical support for theories previously limited to the subjective eye of the beholders.
Nature From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2019
Yoshua Bengio is one of three computer scientists who last week shared the US$1-million A. M. Turing award—one of the field's top prizes.
Nature From ACM Opinion | April 4, 2019
Biologists the world over routinely pay companies to synthesize snippets of DNA for use in the laboratory or clinic.
Nature From ACM News | February 5, 2019
Universities on the continent are rapidly losing talent to industry in the United States and China, say scientists behind the initiative.
Nature From ACM News | December 17, 2018
In the winter of 1994, a young man in his early twenties named Tim was a patient in a London psychiatric hospital.
Nature From ACM News | October 30, 2018
The largest-ever multinational survey on machine ethics found many moral precepts that guide a driver's decisions are not universal.
Nature From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2018
Upload your latest holiday photos to Facebook, and there's a chance they'll end up stored in Prineville, Oregon, a small town where the firm has built three giant...Nature From ACM News | September 17, 2018
When computer scientist Christian Berger's team sought to get its project about self-driving vehicle algorithms on the road, it faced a daunting obstacle.
Nature From ACM News | September 11, 2018
A machine-learning study that analysed hundreds of thousands of earthquakes beat the standard method at predicting the location of aftershocks.
Nature From ACM News | August 31, 2018
Brent Hecht, chair of ACM's Future of Computing Academy, proposes revising the peer review process to ensure scientists report negative societal consequences of...Nature From ACM TechNews | August 1, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018