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Medical Professionals Tap AI to Combat COVID-19
Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are aiding hospitals and healthcare experts in the battle against the coronavirus… From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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AI Tool Predicts Which Patients with Pandemic Virus Will Develop Serious Respiratory Disease
An experimental artificial intelligence tool accurately predicted which patients newly infected with the COVID-19 virus would develop severe respiratory disease...
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Visualization Tool Illustrates Critical Care Bed Capacities All Over Germany
The tool gives doctors an easy way to see critical care bed capacities in German hospitals.
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Balcan to Receive ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for Innovations to Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University's Maria Florina “Nina” Balcan has been named recipient of the 2019 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for her contributions to minimally supervised...
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MIT Researchers Launch Location-Tracking Effort for the New Coronavirus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers and partner organizations have launched a project to track COVID-19 patients through their phones.
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AI Finds 2D Materials in the Blink of an Eye
A new artificial intelligence system can quickly find and label two-dimensional materials in microscope images.
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Behind the Global Efforts to Make a Privacy-first Coronavirus Tracking App
The hope is that smartphone tracking — combined with widespread testing — can help create a framework for cities to let people resume their lives.
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Covid-19: The Race to Create Privacy-focused Contact Tracing Tools
As authorities seek technological solutions to the pandemic, experts fear the consequences for civil liberties.
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How Are You Feeling? Surveys Aim to Detect COVID-19 Hot Spots Early
More than 2 million Britons and 150,000 Israelis have completed health surveys to trace COVID-19 outbreaks and send resources where they can do the most good.
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Study Uses AI to Estimate Unexploded Bombs From Vietnam War
Researchers at The Ohio State University (OSU) used artificial intelligence to find unexploded Vietnam War-era bombs in Cambodia.
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