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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.
Sean Andrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed algorithms to help robots look at people at the right times and in the right ways. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2016
A recurrent neural network developed at the University of California, San Diego can mine patterns in reviews and write its own contextually relevant reviews. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2016
Plasmonics technology has the potential to revolutionize laser printing, according to researchers at the Technical University of Denmark.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2015
Software engineering at Yahoo has undergone a transformation resulting in fewer errors and a much faster development cycle. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 15, 2015
In a recent contest, three Artificial Intelligence programs played against a Russian player in StarCraft: Brood War.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2015
Supercomputing needs to be extended beyond the limits of Moore's Law, says Sandia National Laboratories' Erik DeBenedictis.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2015
Researchers at Iran's University of Tehran have unveiled a humanoid robot that can walk, mimic a person's arm gestures, and stand on one foot while bending backwards...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2015
A joint research project has yielded an interactive design system that enables hobbyists to create custom walking robots that can be printed in three dimensions...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2015
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 29, 2015
The swipe--without actually needing to touch a screen with a finger--will be the next dominant computer interface method, according to researchers in Germany. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 30, 2015
Laser-ranging (lidar) systems that most self-driving cars use to detect obstacles can be hacked by a setup costing about $60.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2015
New technological developments are fomenting an explosion in the diversity and application of robotics.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2015
Two Ph.D. students are seeking to determine how soon artificial intelligence might exceed the capabilities of the human brain. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation collaborated with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to find a better way to search for matching tatoos...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2015
Argonne National Laboratory researcher Stephen Wu has found it may be possible to generate spin current from insulators without a magnetic material.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2015
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2015