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AI Contest Aims to Build the Communications Network of the Future
Participants in the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge can win millions of dollars for developing a radio frequency spectrum allocation system powered by artificial intelligence.
Can We Trust Autonomous Weapons?
Nations consider using defense systems that can make their own lethal decisions.
Containers Push Toward the Mayfly Server
The container revolution represents a large-scale shift in thinking about multitasking systems.
Genetic engineering promises to revolutionize everything from agriculture and biofuels to medicine and food safety.
Network Operators Beef Up Last Mile For Cord-Cutters
Consumers increasingly are bypassing traditional content providers to download content a la carte via broadband connection.
Making Sense of Exabytes of Data at Sc16
“Think about how you got here,” said Katharine Frase, head of strategy and business development for IBM’s Watson Education unit, at the SC16 conference in Salt Lake City last week.
Cognitive Computers Work Like the Human Brain
Neural networks and cognitive computing software emulate the way humans think.
The ‘smart City’ Is Increasingly Global
Municipalities all over the world are building greater intelligence into their infrastructures.
Paas Enables Greater Customization
Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.
Online consumers use software to block ads; online advertisers can pay to be whitelisted by some ad-blocking software.
Apis Are Changing the Way We Pay
Application programming interfaces are being used increasingly to facilitate electronic payments.
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize applications and redefine the digital economy.
Because it is easy to fool, machine learning must be taught how to handle adversarial inputs.
Will Visual Programming Crack the Code on Learning?
An emerging generation of visual coding platforms is introducing software development to young people and other beginners.
Wi-Fi Kiosks Replacing Payphones in Nyc
A move to provide free Internet services yields some unexpected consequences.
Surprise Comes Out of Black-Hole Studies: Error-Correcting Codes
Attempts to reconcile quantum information and gravity have yielded new types of error-correcting codes for proposed quantum computers.
Exploring ways to push more data through a fiber one-tenth the thickness of the average human hair.
While 3D technologies that make headlines are not truly holographic, holographic techniques are furthering advances in important applications such as biomedical imaging.
Computer Science, Math Laureates Convene in Heidelberg
Recipients of the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the ACM A.M. Turing Award met with 200 young researchers from over 50 nations.
Can Electronics Replace Opioids?
Sophisticated algorithms allow electrical nerve stimulation products to quell pain, in some cases, better than drugs.
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