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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.
One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD) in which the counterintuitive behavior...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 22, 2013
The SLOOP software system is designed to automate part of the process of matching images of animals in massive catalogs. MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 6, 2013
Researchers are developing robotic systems that can negotiate with people to determine the best way to achieve their goals.MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 3, 2013
MIT's Imaging Group is studying the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to identify chemical compounds.MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2013
A new model of the structure of the protein most commonly associated with Parkinson's disease could lead to a new way to treat the disease. MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 4, 2013
Modern medicine is largely based on treating patients with "small-molecule" drugs, which include pain relievers like aspirin and antibiotics such as penicillin.MIT News Office From ACM News | March 11, 2013
Many commercial robotic arms perform what roboticists call "pick and place" tasks: The arm picks up an object in one location and places it in another.MIT News Office From ACM News | March 1, 2013
A new high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) chip demonstrates that implementing HEVC algorithms in silicon chips is possible. MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 25, 2013
The device doesn't look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 5, 2012
Twitter's home page features a regularly updated list of topics that are "trending," meaning that tweets about them have suddenly exploded in volume.MIT News Office From ACM News | November 2, 2012
MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 28, 2012
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that can analyze information from medical images to identify diseased areas of the brain and their connections with...MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 7, 2012
MIT researchers have developed Qurk, a database system that automatically crowdsources tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform computationally.MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 27, 2012
At this summer's Siggraph—the premier computer-graphics conference—researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present new...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 25, 2012
Sometimes the fastest pathway from point A to point B is not a straight line: for example, if you're underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 12, 2012
Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 9, 2012
MIT researchers have developed a system that enables robots to create and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their environment using a low-cost camera...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 16, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Polina Golland is a principal investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 17, 2012
Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties—whether...MIT News Office From ACM News | December 20, 2011
Advances in microchip technology may someday enable clinicians to perform tests for hundreds of diseases—sifting out specific molecules, such as early stage cancer...MIT News Office From ACM News | October 21, 2011