Communications of the ACM
Automating Negotiation
Computers are starting to outperform the average human at negotiation.
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Six Things About Opportunity's Recovery Efforts
NASA's Opportunity rover has been silent since June 10, when a planet-encircling dust storm cut off solar power for the nearly-15-year-old rover.
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Common Wi-Fi Can Detect Weapons, Bombs, and Chemicals in Bags
Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers found common Wi-Fi technology can easily identify weapons, bombs, and explosive chemicals in bags at public venues....
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Oracle Open-Sources Graphpipe to Make It Easier to Deploy Machine Learning Models
Oracle has released an open-source tool called Graphpipe to facilitate the deployment of machine learning models.
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Rethinking Social Networks
The WBPA (Weighted Betweenness Preferential Attachment) model developed at Carnegie Mellon University shows how social networks change and develop over time.
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Replacing Your Boss With a Cruel Robot Could Make You Concentrate More
A mean robot could motivate human employees to improve their cognitive performance, compared to supervision by a friendly robot or no robot supervision, researchers...
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The 'Neuropolitics' Consultants Who Hack Voters' Brains
Maria Pocovi slides her laptop over to me with the webcam switched on.
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How Unpaywall Is Transforming Open Science
After being kicked out of a hotel conference room where they had participated in a three-day open-science workshop and hackathon, a group of computer scientists...
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Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers
With gentle pulses from gigantic lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California transformed hydrogen into droplets of shiny liquid metal...
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Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found
A multi-institution team of computer scientists has clarified the first general-purpose method of solving nearest neighbor question for complex data.
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Report: Python Closes In on C++
According to the August 2018 TIOBE Index, Python for the first time is closing in on the top three programming languages — Java, C, and C++.
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Nvidia Unveils Real-Time Ray Tracing Turing Graphics Architecture
Nvidia says it has "reinvented computer graphics" with its Turing graphics-processing unit architecture, which will serve as the platform for a new GPU family that...
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IBM Has a Watson Dilemma
IBM's Watson system is falling short of some expectations for its outcomes in the fight against cancer, with many users citing inaccuracy, susceptibility to error...
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Quantum Chains in Graphene Nanoribbons
Researchers at Empa and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have succeeded in adjusting the electronic properties of graphene nanoribbons by varying their...
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To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians
You're crossing the street wrong.
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LHC Physicists Embrace Brute-Force Approach to Particle Hunt
A once-controversial approach to particle physics has entered the mainstream at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Wi-Fi Could Be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs
Wireless signals can penetrate bags to measure the dimensions of metal objects or estimate the volume of liquids, researchers claim.
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How a Computer Learns to Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice
Researchers have developed a physics-based, real-time method for controlling animated characters that can learn basketball dribbling skills from experience.
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Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master's Degree Online for Less Than $10,000
The Georgia Institute of Technology will offer an online cybersecurity master's degree that will cost students less than $10,000, in collaboration with edX.
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Millions of Businesses Vulnerable to Fax-Based Cyberattack
Fax machines still in use by millions of organizations worldwide could be exploited by hackers to launch cyberattacks.12