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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.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has funded the development of a portable on-demand biopharmaceutical production system.MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 2, 2016
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have issued the first major database of fully annotated English sentences written by non-native English...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2016
Researchers have demonstrated a display on which audiences can watch three-dimensional films in a movie theater without additional eyewear. MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used synthetic biology to program cells to remember and respond to a series of events. MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2016
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 12, 2016
Researchers have demonstrated that snoopers armed with little sophisticated technology can expose the home and workplace addresses of Twitter users. MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2016
Three studies have found tablet use effective in improving performance on standardized tests of reading preparedness by children in economically disadvantaged countries...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2016
The new Eyebrowse system enables Web users to share self-selected aspects of their online activity with their friends and the general public. MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 7, 2016
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Instruments have developed a virtually hack-proof radio-frequency identification chip.MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 5, 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
Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Bits and Atoms, discusses the growth and impact of the Fab Lab project. MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have unveiled an untraceable text-messaging system designed to foil even the most powerful adversaries.MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 7, 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
The inability to practically apply indistinguishability obfuscation to deliver secure cryptography may be mitigated with an efficient method for functional encryption...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 28, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing a computer system that uses multiple types of data to help predict the effects of disease on brain...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers plan to present a machine-learning technique that enables semantically-related concepts to reinforce each other...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Philippe Rigollet and colleagues have developed an approach they say increases the effectiveness of online ads.MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2015