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.
From ACM TechNews
Japanese Researchers Teaching Robots to Repair Themselves
Researchers have demonstrated how to teach a PR2 robot to perform simple repairs on itself by tightening its own screws.
From ACM TechNews
Hand-Tracking Tech Watches Riders in Self-Driving Cars to See If They're Ready to Take the Wheel
Researchers have developed a hand-tracking system to determine how long it would take a driver to assume control of a self-driving car in an emergency.
From ACM TechNews
Screening Technique Finds 142 Malicious Apps in Apple's App Store
Researchers have developed a method of detecting malicious apps that sneak through Apple's App Store screening process and onto some users’ phones.
From ACM TechNews
The Bioacoustic Signatures of Our Bodies Can Reveal Our Identities
Researchers in South Korea have developed a biometric system that uses a transducer to generate vibrations and sound waves that can be used to identify individuals...
From ACM TechNews
Drones: Getting There Before an Ambulance
Researchers at Maimonides Medical Center found that medical drones carrying emergency supplies can reach 911 callers in New York City significantly faster than...
From ACM TechNews
This MIT Robot Wants to Use Your Reflexes to Walk and Balance
Researchers have developed a teleoperation system that allows a two-legged robot to "borrow" a human operator's physical skills to move with greater agility.
From ACM TechNews
Astrobee Performs First Autonomous Flight on the International Space Station
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobee robot is now up and running on the International Space Station (ISS).
From ACM TechNews
App Detects Eye Disease in Personal Photos
Baylor University researchers have developed a free smartphone app that uses machine learning to flag eye disease from personal photos, as much as a year ahead...
From ACM TechNews
U.S. Energy Department Is First Customer for World's Biggest Chip
The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories will be among the first organizations to deploy artificial intelligence computers...
From ACM TechNews
Software Engineering Grads Lack Skills Startups Need
The present state of software engineering education at universities does not meet the needs of technology-based software startups, according to a new study.
From ACM TechNews
AI Can Edit Photos with Zero Experience
Researchers are using deep internal learning, in which a machine learning algorithm ascertains the internal structure of a single image from scratch, to edit photos...
From ACM TechNews
Harnessing Public Smartphones to Track Drones
A new method of tracking unfamiliar drones leverages consumer smartphones to detect the Wi-Fi signals of nearby drones.
From ACM TechNews
Early Warning System Predicts Risk of Online Students Dropping Out
Researchers in Spain have developed a predictive modeling system for personalized student dropout rates.
From ACM TechNews
Home Robot Control for People With Disabilities
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed an augmented reality interface to help disabled individuals control complex assistive robots.
From ACM News
Three Small Stickers in Intersection Can Cause Tesla Autopilot to Swerve Into Wrong Lane
Security researchers from Tencent have demonstrated a way to use physical attacks to spoof Tesla's autopilot.
From ACM TechNews
What Programming Languages Engineers, Employers Love--and Hate
A survey on the love/hate relationships between software engineers and coding languages found Google's Go language was the global leader.
From ACM TechNews
Security Technology Detects Cyberattacks on Drones, Cars, Robots
Researchers at Mitsubishi Electric have developed sensor-security technology for detecting inconsistencies in sensor measurements when a system is under attack....
From ACM TechNews
Winners Announced for the Zillow Prize
The Zillow Prize competition pitted nearly 4,000 teams against one another in an effort to develop a computerized system that could predict the future sale price...
From ACM TechNews
Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Rats
Drones flying over the Galapagos island of North Seymour dropped rat poison in an effort to eliminate invasive black and brown rats.
From ACM TechNews