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From ACM NewsDavid Geer Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 23, 2022
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 21, 2016
Researchers have developed a quantum computer design featuring an array of superconducting islands on top of a topological insulator. MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have modified an algorithm for processing three-dimensional camera data, with power conservation in mind. MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers this week introduced a new chip that implements neural networks.MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 3, 2016
Researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can predict how memorable or forgettable a given image is almost as accurately as humans. MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 18, 2015
Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people’s Web-browsing habits from prying eyes.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 7, 2015
A biomedical imaging system developed by MIT researchers could ultimately replace a $100,000 microscope with components that cost only hundreds of dollars. The...MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 24, 2015
The new RF Capture technology can pick up wireless reflections off the human body to visualize the silhouette of a person concealed behind a wall. MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed what they call the first computer file system that ensures no loss of data when the system crashes...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2015
Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed: Equipped with large pincers or claws, they are designed to perform simple maneuvers, such as grabbing an object...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 6, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed gallium nitride transistors to power electronic circuits.MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 30, 2015
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics will work to advance U.S. capabilities in integrated photonic technology.MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2015
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 24, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Sergio Cantu studies how light can act as an information carrier in computing and calculating. MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 16, 2015
At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 29, 2015
Researchers have developed a new approach to programming autonomous underwater vehicles that increases their "cognitive" capabilities.MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2015
Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using only a single photon.MIT News Office From ACM News | April 2, 2015
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | March 3, 2015