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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 have developed an improved version of last year's LineFORM multifunctional snake robot that introduces modularity to the system.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2016
Scientists typically control the behavior of a lab mouse by enticing it with food or repelling it with puffs of air.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 2, 2016
Is there a research institute with a more distinguished pedigree in graphene research than the University of Manchester?
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | November 28, 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new kind of robotic skin that incorporates active heating. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 7, 2016
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab are working to develop autonomous quadcopters that can fly through windows without running into them. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2016
As artificial intelligence technologies increasingly are deployed to meet industrial and personal needs, the field will need to address its lack of ethnic and gender...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2016
Researchers from the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab say they have developed a more efficient way to cool humanoid robots.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2016
Devices made from thin layers of graphene, boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides can generate a single photon entirely by electricity. Built at the...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 14, 2016
Japan-based Fujitsu has developed an approach to accelerating parallel computing driven by deep-learning neural network algorithms.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2016
Google has launched a Google Translate upgrade utilizing enhanced deep-learning techniques to produce more accurate translations.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2016
Back in the 1990s, observers predicted that the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) would be the nanomaterial that pushed silicon aside and created a post-CMOS...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 7, 2016
Transistors, the electronic amplifiers and switches found at the heart of everything from pocket radios to warehouse-size supercomputers, were invented in 1947.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | August 31, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University's Simon Kalouche is developing a new design for legs that would enable a robot to navigate the terrain a goat typically traverses. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 19, 2016
Big data programming languages are gaining in importance because they enable the mining of massive datasets.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 1, 2016
David Zarrouk of Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev has developed a robot that can move forward and backward by producing a continuously advancing wave...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2016
The 2015 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors predicts the transistor could stop shrinking in only five years. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2016