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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A new system could enable autonomous vehicles to navigate complex environments by checking a basic global positioning system-like map and employing video feeds....MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 29, 2019
A new technique can derive fully comprehensive samples, or "sketches," of vast cellular datasets, to simplify analysis.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 9, 2019
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver listened to a question on stage Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, paused for a moment, and delivered a surprising...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 6, 2019
A novel model developed by MIT and Microsoft researchers identifies instances in which autonomous systems have "learned" from training examples that don't match...MIT News From ACM News | January 28, 2019
A new computer program allows users to translate any free-form drawing into a two-dimensional, nanoscale structure made of DNA.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2019
A new technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "reverse-engineers" complex three-dimensional (3-D) computer-aided design...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 4, 2019
Engineers used a deep neural network to train a computer to reconstruct transparent objects from images captured in almost total darkness.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 20, 2018
MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials...MIT News From ACM News | December 17, 2018
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into...MIT News Office From ACM News | November 7, 2018
A new system uses reflected wireless signals to identify occupants within a home, even when they are not carrying mobile devices.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2018
A new system can learn to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 24, 2018
Dense Object Nets is a system that lets robots inspect random objects and visually understand them enough to accomplish specific tasks without having seen them...MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 12, 2018
MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 22, 2018
A new machine learning algorithm can register brain scans and other three-dimensional images about 1,000 times faster than previously possible using novel learning...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 26, 2018
Getting robots to do things isn't easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language...MIT News From ACM News | June 21, 2018
Observing the world's oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)—marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide...MIT News From ACM News | May 14, 2018
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2017
Researchers have developed InstantCAD to facilitate interactive real-time editing, enhancement, and optimization of computer-aided design models via a simpler...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 25, 2017