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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.
Cameras used to be their own devices with lenses and film and trips to the drug store to get the pictures developed. Then, they disappeared into phones, tablets...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 4, 2018
Have you had your genome sequenced yet? Millions of people around the world already have, and by 2025 that number could reach a billion.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | August 24, 2018
Smart glasses developed by Microsoft Research's Glabella Project can measure blood pressure noninvasively.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 23, 2018
A paper-based single-use battery harnesses bacteria to generate an electric current, and then to consume the battery after its use.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 22, 2018
Researchers have demonstrated proof of principle for a method of controlling graphene's rotation and the dynamic variance of its electrical, optical, and mechanical...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2018
Researchers have developed all-optical logic gates from nanowires in a novel way, a significant step in the development of on-chip, all-optical logic components...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2018
A sprawling robot at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel upgrades an earlier design's wheel-leg mobility so it can scale impediments.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2018
Cornell University researchers have devised ways for biodegradable robotic actuators to be powered by popping corn.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2018
Leveraging recent advances in optimal and nonlinear control systems, the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a bipedal...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 2, 2018
Today, U.S. supercomputer advocates are cheering, because for the first time since 2012, a U.S. supercomputer—Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed ...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 26, 2018
Cornell University's Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship Lab is developing a robot designed to explore textual communication.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 17, 2018
Computer scientists have now invented a way to hide secret messages in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing the shapes of letters.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | May 16, 2018
Tornado survivors often compare the terrifying, deafening roars of a twister's furious winds to the sound of a freight train. But storms also emit sounds that are...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | May 9, 2018
Researchers have developed an envelope for hardware security modules that requires no battery and cannot be broken into without deleting its stored data.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2018
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has developed an intuitive, wearable drone control system.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2018
Using small, rotating magnetic fields, researchers controlled nanomachines inside of living cells to trace the letters "N" and "M."
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 18, 2018