Newsfeeds
January 2025 – Communications of the ACM
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AAC with Automated Vocabulary from Photographs: Insights from School and Speech-Language Therapy Settings
A mobile application can generate situation-specific communication boards automatically from photographs.
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Technical Perspective: Can AI Keep Accessible Communication in the Picture?
Recent research explores how AI can use photos to support communication, especially for people with communication impairments.
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Cylinder Lottery
Shifting the mix.
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Connecting the Unconnected
The LiteLoad project is working to quantify the impact of poor connectivity in rural areas near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee, as a testing ground.
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Is It Math or CS? Or Is It Both?
Igor Markov's “Reevaluating Google’s Reinforcement Learning for IC Macro Placement” in the November 2024 Communications looks at two non-peer-reviewed papers and makes baseless allegations of scientific integrity issues, all already found to be without merit.