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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.
Researchers affiliated with South Korea's Hanyang University are developing a system to fully automate the parking process, including helping find a parking space...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 2, 2014
AgencyGlass is a wearable device that produces "virtual eyes" to give the wearer a semblance of friendliness and approachability. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 16, 2014
When teams participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced last year, almost all of them provided reasonably detailed renderings that gave us...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 11, 2013
Computer scientists have developed a "mathematical obfuscation" scheme to prevent hackers from reverse-engineering software. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2013
Researchers have developed an air-hockey robot that can change its strategy in response to the playing style of its human opponent. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 19, 2013
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | February 13, 2013
In an interview, Google Glass project leader Babak Parviz discusses where the wearable device is heading in the near future. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2013
IEEE's Erico Guizzo and Hizook.com founder Travis Deyle make several predictions regarding what will be big news in robotics this year.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 22, 2012
When Microsoft was developing its Kinect 3D sensor, a critical task was to calibrate its algorithms to rapidly and accurately recognize parts of the human body,...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2012
On 6 August, peaceful protests over the police shooting of a local man in London's Tottenham district exploded into full-blown riots. During four days of assaults...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | November 2, 2011
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 20, 2011
Lego Universe, the online computer game scheduled for release in October, marks the legendary company's first foray into massively multiplayer gaming, and for...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | July 8, 2010
Roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, one of the world's most brilliant—and controversial—android makers, has built android copies of a child, a woman, and now, himself.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | March 29, 2010
Telepresence technology has a long way to go before people can perform everyday duties with robotic avatars. Present-day telepresence interfaces consist of joysticks...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009