Communications of the ACM
When Cars Fly
The idea of personal air vehicles has been around for decades. Now the concept is taking off.
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What Exactly Do You Mean When You Say 'Best'?
Researchers have developed a system for interpreting sarcastic statements in social media.
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Facial Recognition May Boost Airport Security But Raises Privacy Worries
Passengers at Boston's Logan International Airport were surfing their phones and drinking coffee, waiting to board a flight to Aruba recently when a JetBlue agent...
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Synthetic Iris Could Let Cameras React to Light Like Our Eyes Do
An artificial iris can open and close in response to sunlight without any other outside control, just like the ones in your eyes.
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Global Race Toward Exascale Will Drive Supercomputing, AI to Masses
Industrial trends in high-performance computing are setting a foundation for the eventual pervasiveness of artificial intelligence and big data applications within...
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Building a Brain May Mean Going Analog
Analog circuits consume less power per operation than CMOS technologies, and so should prove more efficient.
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Cracking the Code on DNA Storage
Researchers are tapping DNA to create a new and different type of storage media. The technology could prove revolutionary.
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Artificial Intelligence Poised to Ride a New Wave
Flush with recent successes, and pushed by even newer technology, AI systems could get much smarter.
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Jean E. Sammet 1928-2017
Jean E. Sammet, an American computer scientist who served as the first female president of ACM, passed away on May 21 at the age of 89.
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Taking a Ride in MIT's Self-Driving Wheelchair
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a self-driving wheelchair currently undergoing testing on the MIT campus...
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Boys Say They're More Likely to Pursue STEM Careers Than Girls
Adolescent boys say they are more likely to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields than girls, according to a survey from Junior...
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Selfies: We Love How We Look and We're Here to Show You
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say they have analyzed 2.5 million selfie posts on Instagram to determine what kinds of identity statements people...
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New Model of Evolution Finally Reveals How Cooperation Evolves
One of the great unanswered question in biology is why organisms have evolved to cooperate.
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Solar System Survey Casts Doubt on Mysterious 'Planet Nine'
An analysis of four icy bodies discovered in the outer Solar System reveals no sign that they are being influenced by a large, unseen planet lurking beyond Neptune...
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New Algorithm Generates Folding Patterns to Produce Any 3-D Origami Structure
In July, researchers at the University of Tokyo will announce a universal algorithm for folding origami shapes that guarantees a minimum number of seams.
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The Human Brain Project Reboots: A Search Engine for the Brain Is in Sight
The European Commission-funded Human Brain Project is on track to create a searchable model of the brain by building an infrastructure combining high-performance...
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How Scratch and Minecraft Developers Hope to Keep Kids Coding for Life
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab aim to nurture a lifelong enthusiasm for programming among young students, using the Scratch learn-to-code platform.
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Teaching Computer Science Is Great, But It's Not Enough
Although progress has been made on providing more computer science education to K-12 students, the United States is still years away from providing adequate CS education...
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What an AI's Non-Human Language Actually Looks Like
Researchers at the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab have found that bots they were training to negotiate with each other began conversing in a non-human...
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Illinois Researchers Build Dropbox-Like Storage, Analytical System for Scientific Data
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are studying how to accelerate the materials-to-device process through a new framework that links...
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