Google nveils ‘artificial Creativity’
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Google's Magenta artificial intelligence is being challenged to produce original music and other art.
ACM Fellow Professor Yale Patt reflects on his career in industry and academia.
40 years ago, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman introduced the public key cryptography used to secure today's online transactions.
What Happens When Big Data Blunders?
Big data is touted as a cure-all for challenges in business, government, and healthcare, but as disease outbreak predictions show, big data often fails.
Search engine developers are moving beyond the problem of document analysis, toward the elusive goal of figuring out what people really want.
Athletic footwear is about to be customized in the extreme, through a combination of computer vision-enabled scanning and three-dimensional printing.
A growing number of games seek to introduce the concepts of programming to young players.
You Can Hear the Future Calling
Hearables are not your father’s earphones, limited to taking calls and listening to music.
500,000+ Data Scientists at Your Service
Members of the online community Kaggle push the limits of what Big Data can do.
Inexpensive three-dimensional printers are making prosthetic hands and arms more widely available.
Silicon Photonics: Ready to Go the Distance?
Processes for making CMOS chips are adapted for optical components.
Researchers aim to apply artificial intelligence and machine-learning methods to take cybersecurity to a new, higher, and better level.
ACM’s 2016 General Election: Please Take This Opportunity to Vote
Meet the candidates who introduce their plans — and stands — for the Association.
The Road to Regulating Self-Driving Cars Is Long, Winding
Real-world use of autonomous vehicles will depend on how they are evaluated, and whether federal regulators have the expertise to lead evaluation efforts.
Can Chatbots Think Before They Talk?
ELIZA-like programs balance modern AI with decades-old database techniques.
Search Engine’s Author Profiles Now Driven By Influence Metrics
"It’s important to be selective," says CEO Etzioni.
Pair Programming Is Still Vibrant
The agile methodology has not grown quickly, but still has its adherents.
Intel, IBM, and others stake their claims to the future technology path for semiconductors.
Will new technology spawn mass unemployment, as the robots take jobs away from humans?
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