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Flawed scholarship threatens to mislead the public and stymie future research by compromising ML’s intellectual foundations. Indeed, many of these problems have recurred cyclically throughout the history of AI and, more broadly, in scientific research. ...

From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be. When machines are in the natural world, what in the world is still unnatural?

From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be.

Autonomous or not, design is destiny.

From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be.

Advances on multiple fronts are bringing big improvements to the way computers learn, increasing the accuracy of speech and vision systems.

Guided by collective intelligence, teams of small, simple robots could soon accomplish amazing feats.

Future Tense, one of the revolving features on this page, presents stories and essays from the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, their boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what will and could be.

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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.

Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.

A new DARPA program is teaching cameras visual intelligence---how to spot and understand human behavior.

The Holy Grail of language translation is to develop a machine-based system that can handle the task transparently and accurately.

Self-driving cars are inching closer to the assembly line, thanks to promising new projects from Google and the European Union.

Does IBM's Watson represent a distinct breakthrough in machine learning and natural language processing or is the 2,880-core wunderkind merely a solid feat of engineering?

Leslie Valiant discusses machine learning, parallel computing, and computational neuroscience.

New screen materials could lead to portable devices that are anything but rectangular, flat, and unbendable.

With recent advances in laser rangefinders, faster algorithms, and open source robotic operating systems, researchers are increasing domestic robots' semantic and situational awareness.

Researchers working in vision and graphics are attempting to develop new techniques and technologies to overcome the current limitations in stereoscopic 3D.

ACM joined forces with the British Computer Society to deliver its first academic research conference in Europe.

Researchers use computer vision techniques to preserve culturally significant sites as high-resolution 3D models.