Communications of the ACM
Spies in Our Pockets
Electronic eavesdropping is becoming ever more nefarious in the age of smartphones and digital devices.
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Conservatives, Liberals Unite Against Silicon Valley
The days of unqualified praise from Washington are over for the country's biggest tech companies, whose size and power are increasingly drawing attacks from both...
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Brain Composer: 'Thinking' Melodies Onto a Musical Score
P300 is a new brain-computer interface application that enables music to be composed by thought.
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Online Gaming Yields First Results for Alzheimer's Research
Stall Catchers is an online computer game in which players use to analyze movies of blood flow to the brain as part of Alzheimer's disease research.
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Most TV Computer Scientists Are Still White Men. Google Wants to Change That
Google is urging Hollywood to diversify the gender and ethnicity of computer scientists appearing on TV and film.
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Why a 24-Year-Old Chipmaker Is One of Tech's Hot Prospects
Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy.
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A Game You Can Control With Your Mind
When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls.
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Robot the Musical
Artificial intelligence promises to change aspects of music ranging from rock concerts to advertising jingles.
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Meet Mappy, a Software System That Automatically Maps Old-School Nintendo Games
Mappy is a new software system that can autonomously generate maps of a video game's levels.
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It's All About Image
Image recognition technology is advancing rapidly. Researchers are discovering new ways to tackle the task without enormous datasets.
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Why GPS Spoofing Is a Threat to Companies, Countries
Technology that falsifies navigation data presents significant dangers to public and private organizations.
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Computers Will Stitch Together First-Ever Megamovie of Solar Eclipse
Researchers are working on the "Eclipse Megamovie" project, in which volunteers take photos of the solar eclipse's path across the U.S. and upload the images to...
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How AI Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
Innovators are using deep neural networks to train machines to produce artwork by analyzing massive datasets. Google researcher Douglas Eck envisions artificial...
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New Research Could Show How Legendary Musicians Would Play Modern Music
Researchers are developing a system that could be used to show how musicians from any era would have played a piece of music from any other era.
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New Tool Increases Adaptability, Autonomy of 'Skyrim' Nonplayer Characters
CIF-CK is a new artificial intelligence architecture program that uses social behavior models to make individual "Skyrim" non-player characters more reactive and...
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How Apps Can Motivate You by Tapping Into Your Personality
Rita Orji at the University of Waterloo in Canada is designing interactive persuasive computer games customized to the player's motivational style.
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'Magic Bench' Lets Users See, Hear, and Feel Animated Characters
Researchers at Disney have developed the "Magic Bench," a combined augmented and mixed reality experience in which multiple users experience virtual surroundings...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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AI-Generated Map Predicts Who Will Die Next in 'Game of Thrones'
A new machine-learning algorithm can predict which characters on "Game of Thrones" will die next.
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