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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.
Chisel is a new system that lets programmers identify sections of their code that can tolerate small errors.MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2014
Measurable virtual reality combines ceiling-mounted projectors with motion-capture technology and animation software to project a robot's intentions in real time...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 31, 2014
Researchers have developed a robot equipped with tactile sensors that enable it to grasp a USB cable draped over a hook and insert it into a USB port. MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 24, 2014
Researchers have developed a soft robotic arm, inspired by octopus tentacles, that can snake through a pipelike environment without a human operator. MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 17, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding, and successfully implemented it in a robotic cheetah. MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2014
Objects in space tend to spin—and spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 11, 2014
Mezzanine is a collaborative-conferencing system that enables multiple users to share and control digital content from any device using gesture controls. MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2014
Researchers analyzing taxi trip data found about 95% of trips could have been shared, and an optimal combination of trips would have cut travel time by 40%. MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 5, 2014
DBWipes is a new data visualization tool that enables users to highlight abnormalities and possible patterns in a graphical display. MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 18, 2014
For years, a team of researchers at MIT and Harvard University has been working on origami robots—reconfigurable robots that would be able to fold themselves into...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 8, 2014
The fields of data communication, fabrication, and ultrasound imaging share a common challenge when it comes to improving speed and efficiency: light's diffraction...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | July 14, 2014
A new algorithm enables independent agents to collaborate on a machine-learning model without aggregating data. MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 27, 2014
The more cores—or processing units—a computer chip has, the bigger the problem of communication between cores becomes.MIT News Office From ACM News | June 25, 2014
A new algorithm can determine whether a given snippet of video is playing backward or forward with 80-percent accuracy. MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 20, 2014
One of the reasons we don't yet have self-driving cars and mini-helicopters delivering online purchases is that autonomous vehicles tend not to perform well under...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 9, 2014
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 4, 2014
Terahertz imaging, which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints, has a number of other promising applications—from explosives detection to collision...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 7, 2014