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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
An artificial intelligence engine that Google uses in many of its products, and that it made freely available last month, is now being used by others to perform...Technology Review From ACM News | December 9, 2015
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.Technology Review From ACM News | December 8, 2015
Italian and Swiss researchers have created an experimental telepresence robot that can be operated by disabled people via brain signals. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2015
A new machine-vision strategy for data-mining a massive database of high school yearbook photos has been pioneered at the University of California, Berkeley.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 1, 2015
The improvement of image-recognition software via deep learning could help usher in an era of image-based Web shopping/browsing.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2015
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...Technology Review From ACM News | November 13, 2015
Owners of three-dimensional printers will be able to fabricate plastic hair using a method developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2015
Two robots operating in different academic research labs have demonstrated a rudimentary ability to exchange knowledge. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2015
In a move that makes it possible to seamlessly combine your love of emojis with adorable animal videos, a group of researchers has built a prototype of a search...Technology Review From ACM News | October 30, 2015
Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use of an automated driving system, called Autopilot, in its Model S all-electric...Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2015
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man's spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant...Technology Review From ACM News | October 22, 2015
The behavior and interplay of two types of neurons in the brain helps give humans and other animals an uncanny ability to navigate by building a mental map of their...Technology Review From ACM News | October 20, 2015
In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar robots struggled to perform even simple tasks like climbing a flight of stairs; someimpeccable...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
Augmented or mixed reality, which renders virtual images in a view of the real world, can be spectacular to experience. But it may be even more fun when you bring...Technology Review From ACM News | October 13, 2015