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.
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Wireless Communication Breaks Through Water-Air Barrier
MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne...
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Introducing the Latest in Textiles: Soft Hardware
Researchers have embedded high-speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices within fibers woven into soft, washable fabrics, and converted them into communication...
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On-Chip Optical Filter Processes Wide Range of Light Wavelengths
A new optical filter on a chip can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light simultaneously.
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Cell-Sized Robots Can Sense Their Environment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed cell-sized robots that can sense their environment, store data, and conduct computational tasks...
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How to Control Robots with Brainwaves and Hand Gestures
Getting robots to do things isn't easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language...
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Chip pgrade Helps Miniature Drones Navigate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers reduced the size and power consumption of a computer chip they designed in 2017 to help honeybee-sized drones...
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Device Allows a Personal Computer to Process Huge Graphs
A new device uses inexpensive flash storage to process huge graphs using a personal computer.
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Autonomous Boats Could Service Some Cities, Reducing Road Traffic
Researchers have highly maneuverable autonomous boats that, in waterway-rich cities, could be used to transport people or deliver goods.
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Albatross Robot Takes Flight
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created an albatross-like robot that can skim along the water's surface while also surfing the waves like a...
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Fundamental Equations Guide Marine Robots to Optimal Sampling Sites
Systems of mathematical equations can forecast the most informative data to collect for an autonomous underwater vehicle mission and the best way to reach the sampling...
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Fundamental Equations Guide Marine Robots to Optimal Sampling Sites
Observing the world's oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)—marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide...
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Machine-Learning System Processes Sounds Like Humans Do
Researchers have used a deep neural network to build the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre....
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Integrating Optical Components Into Existing Chip Designs
A new method uses existing manufacturing processes to build optics and electronics separately on-chip.
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Private Browsing Gets More Private
The new Veil system is designed to improve private browsing by guaranteeing that any data the browser loads into memory remains encrypted until it is displayed...
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Robo-Picker Grasps and Grabs
A new "pick-and-place" robot features a standard industrial robotic arm equipped with a custom gripper and suction cup.
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Physicists Create New Form of Light
Researchers have demonstrated the successful interaction of photons, which could clear a path toward using light particles in quantum computing.
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Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'brain-on-a-Chip' Hardware
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can't be beat.
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Programmable Droplets
New hardware applies electric fields to manipulate droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them to test thousands of reactions in...
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Let Your Car Tell You What It Needs
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...
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