Open-Source Surgical Robot Fuels niversity Research
U.S. researchers have developed a new, open source robot — said to be the first of its kind — that is now facilitating robotic laparoscopic surgery research at seven different universities.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
Better Medicine Through Machine Learning
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.
Flexible Experimentation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Virtual testbeds model them by seamlessly integrating physical, simulated, and emulated sensor nodes and radios in real time.
An Interview with Stephen A. Cook
Stephen A. Cook, winner of the 1982 A.M. Turing Award, reflects on his career.
(Computer) Vision Without Sight
Computer vision holds the key for the blind or visually impaired to explore the visual world.
Technical Perspective: Where Do People Draw Lines?
Computer graphics once focused exclusively on realism. The field eventually broadened to include other pictorial styles. The breadth of situations in which line drawings are used makes it important to develop algorithms to generate them either automatically or in a user-assisted manner.
Artificial Intelligence: Past and Future
The most dramatic chess match of the 20th century was the May 1997 rematch between the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue and world champion Garry Kasparov, which Deep Blue won. While this victory was considered by many a triumph for artificial intelligence, John McCarthy, who coined the very name of the field, was rather dismissive of this accomplishment.
This paper presents the results of a study in which artists made line drawings intended to convey specific 3D shapes.
In a social network, nodes correspond to people or other social entities, and edges correspond to social links between them. We describe a family of attacks such that it is possible to learn whether edges exist or not between specific targeted pairs of nodes.
Answer Set Programming at a Glance
The motivation and key concepts behind answer set programming — a promising approach to declarative problem solving.
M. Frans Kaashoek talks about multicore computing, security, and operating system design.
Natural user interface developments, such as Microsoft's Kinect, may indicate the beginning of the end for the mouse.
The Rise of Molecular Machines
The field of molecular computing is achieving new levels of control over biochemical processes and fostering sophisticated connections between computer science and the biological sciences.
Doctoral Program Rankings For U.S. Computing Programs: The National Research Council Strikes Out
A proposal for improving doctoral program ranking strategy.
The skill of making and recognizing grounded claims is essential for professional practice. Getting objective data to support your conclusions is not enough.
Formal Analysis of MPI-Based Parallel Programs
The goal is reliable parallel simulations, helping scientists understand nature, from how foams compress to how ribosomes construct proteins.
Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them.
The Rise and Fall of High Performance Fortran
HPF pioneered a high-level approach to parallel programming but failed to win over a broad user community.
Technical Perspective: A Perfect ‘Match’
In a breakthrough contribution, the authors of the paper that follows have developed an efficient way to find approximate nearest neighbors for the case of database patches within image data.
The Patchmatch Randomized Matching Algorithm For Image Manipulation
This paper presents a new randomized algorithm for quickly finding approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches. Our algorithm offers substantial performance improvements over the previous state of the art.
The contributions and personality of John McCarthy, one of the pioneers of computer science.
AI Pioneer John Mccarthy, 1927-2011
Artificial intelligence pioneer and Lisp creator John McCarthy, who received the A.M. Turing Award in 1971, passed away on October 23. He was 84.
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