Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Self-Driving Cars Getting Dinged in California
Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies...
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MIT Engineers Have High Hopes For Cheetah Robot
A new cheetah-inspired robot can run on batteries at speeds of more than 10 miles per hour, jump about 16 inches high, land safely, and continue running for 15...
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How to Teach Self-Driving Cars Ethics of the Road
A large truck speeding in the opposite direction suddenly veers into your lane.
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Welcome to the Super Bowl For Robots
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's robotics competition is aimed at developing a robot that can function in disaster zones.
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Researchers Aim to Create Virtual Speech Therapist
Researchers working to develop a virtual speech therapist, technology that could help people overcome the language disorder known as aphasia.
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Move Over Messi, Here Come the Robots
More than 1,000 soccer-playing robots from 40 countries are competing against each other in the RoboCup soccer tournament.
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Al-Qaida Tipsheet on Avoiding Drones Found in Mali
One of the last things the bearded fighters did before leaving this city was to drive to the market where traders lay their carpets out in the sand.
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Using 3D Worlds to Visualize Data
Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars?
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IBM Sends Watson to Ny College to Boost Its Skills
IBM announced that it will provide Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) with a Watson supercomputing system. IBM says RPI's artificial intelligence researchers...
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Will Smart Machines Create a World Without Work?
They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider...
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Cambridge to Study Technology's Risk to Humans
The potential risks that super intelligent technologies pose to humans will be the focus of the proposed Center for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University...
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Paralyzed Man Uses Brain-Powered Robot Arm to Touch
Giving a high-five. Rubbing his girlfriend's hand. Such ordinary acts—but a milestone for a paralyzed man. True, a robotic arm parked next to his wheelchair did...
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Mars Landing Sites Narrowed Down to Final 4
After years of poring through images from space and debating where on Mars the next NASA rover should land, it comes down to four choices.
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Robot's Space Debut 'giant Leap For Tinmankind'
NASA is sending a humanoid robot, called Robonaut 2, to the International Space Station for the first time. R2 has more than 350 electrical sensors throughout...
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Driverless Vans End 8,000-Mile Test Drive to China
The European Research Council's 8,000-mile robotic car test, which began in Italy on July 20, came to a conclusion as four unmanned electric vans successfully completed...
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Italy to China in Driverless Vehicles
University of Parma researchers recently embarked on an 8,000-mile, three-month road trip from Italy to China to test the limits of driverless vehicles.
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Stanford Researchers' Audi to Climb Pikes Peak Without a Driver
It can traverse rough terrain, accelerate quickly and negotiate sharp turns like other high-performance sports cars, but there's one thing that sets this Audi coupe...
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