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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.
Artbot is a new mobile website app that mines both user preferences and event tags to provide users with connections to the local art scene. MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2015
Detailed new field studies, laboratory experiments, and simulations of the largest known "internal waves" in the Earth's oceans—phenomena that play a key role in...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 7, 2015
Programs of less than 50 lines in a probabilistic programming language are as effective as conventional systems for completing some standard computer-vision tasks...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2015
MIT researchers have developed a new, ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that is 1,000 times more energy-efficient than its predecessors. It could lead to miniaturized...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 9, 2015
Analyzing people's keystrokes as they type on a computer keyboard can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function, according to a...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 3, 2015
Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using only a single photon.MIT News Office From ACM News | April 2, 2015
A new peer-to-peer networking tool enables people suffering from anxiety and depression to build online support communities and practice therapeutic methods. MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2015
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magnetic nanoparticles—a technique allowing direct...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 13, 2015
Researchers have developed a prototype of a finger-mounted device with a built-in camera that converts written text into audio for visually impaired users. MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2015
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | March 3, 2015
The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...MIT News From ACM News | February 20, 2015
Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To keep delivering performance improvements, chipmakers are instead giving chips more processing units, or cores...MIT News Office From ACM News | February 18, 2015
Every undergraduate computer-science major takes a course on data structures, which describes different ways of organizing data in a computer’s memory.MIT News Office From ACM News | February 2, 2015
Optimization algorithms, which try to find the minimum values of mathematical functions, are everywhere in engineering. Among other things, they're used to evaluate...MIT News Office From ACM News | January 22, 2015
A new algorithm can aggregate perspectives and recognize four times as many objects as one that uses a single perspective, while reducing misidentifications. MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 14, 2015
For household robots ever to be practical, they'll need to be able to recognize the objects they're supposed to manipulate.MIT News Office From ACM News | January 12, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have found the most recent version of deep neural networks match the primate brain. MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2014
Using a gene-editing system originally developed to delete specific genes, MIT researchers have now shown that they can reliably turn on any gene of their choosing...MIT News From ACM News | December 17, 2014
MIT chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect hazardous gases and environmental pollutants, using a simple sensor that can be read by a smartphone.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 11, 2014
Researchers say an algorithm they developed can accurately determine whether a patient is suffering from emphysema or heart failure based on their breath.MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2014