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ACM Turing Award Honors Bob Metcalfe for Ethernet
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention… From ACM CareersAn 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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IBM's Latest Quantum Computing Processor Triples the Qubits of its Predecessor
It's a step closer to the goal of having a 4,000-plus qubit system by 2025.
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Tesla Drivers Become 'Inattentive' When Using Autopilot, Study Finds
Drivers glanced less at the road and more on "non-driving related areas."
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Detroit Lets Automakers Test Smart Parking Technology in Real Garage
The city of Detroit has partnered with Ford and Bosch to establish a Smart Parking Lab in the city's Bedrock Assembly Garage to test autonomous technologies in...
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MIT Robot Could Help People with Limited Mobility Dress Themselves
Researchers designed an algorithm to help a robot efficiently dress a human, theoretically ensuring human safety by reasoning about the human model's uncertainty...
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'Blind' Robot Successfully Navigates Stairs
A "blind" bipedal robot trained in a simulator by Oregon State University (OSU) researchers can negotiate varying terrain, including the climbing of stairs.
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Researchers Developed Backpack System to Guide Vision-Impaired Wearers
An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered backpack developed by University of Georgia (UGA) researchers can help vision-impaired wearers navigate their environment...
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2020 Put Us On the Edge of a Processor Revolution
Upscaled looks back at a big year for CPUs.
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The LAFD just hired America's first firefighting robot
On Tuesday, the 3,500-pound RS3 helped to put out a fire in downtown Los Angeles.
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Adobe Is Using AI to Catch Photoshopped Images
While picture editors have tweaked images for decades, modern tools like Adobe Photoshop let them alter photos to the point of complete fabrication.
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