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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Researchers are working to help computers understand human behavior by feeding them videos and images of computer-generated bodies in motion
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 5, 2017
Researchers say they have developed a system that can digitally transmit the color and sourness of a glass of lemonade to a tumbler of water.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 27, 2017
Our most accurate clocks are probing a key tenet of Einstein's theory of relativity: the idea that time isn't absolute.
New Scientist From ACM News | March 23, 2017
Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed a robotic head that analyzes how people interact with each other.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 17, 2017
By making DNA endlessly change, researchers have shown how a biological computer might one day solve problems much faster than conventional computers or even ...New Scientist From ACM News | March 3, 2017
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany have created a camera that combines four three-dimensionally-printed lenses to mimic natural vision.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2017
The same type of artificial intelligence that mastered the ancient game of Go could help wrestle with the amazing complexity of quantum systems containing billions...New Scientist From ACM News | February 13, 2017
A wearable device under development at the University of Michigan provides continuous authentication for voice assistants such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2017
Stanford University researchers have developed a new transistor that can be stretched to twice its length without losing conductivity, making it well-suited for...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 9, 2017
New studies explore why women experience more motion sickness than men while using virtual reality.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 19, 2016
Researchers from the University of Sussex in the U.K. have replaced the millions of lasers in traditional quantum computing systems with several static magnets...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2016
An artificial intelligence system can predict how a scene will unfold and dream up a vision of the immediate future.
New Scientist From ACM News | December 5, 2016
Researchers from Germany's University of Paderborn have developed a system that can convert photons from one spread of frequencies to another, while preserving...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2016
Researchers have created a spoon with electrodes that can amplify salty, sour, or bitter flavors, and used thermal stimulation to mimic the sensation of sweetness...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 11, 2016
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.New Scientist From ACM News | November 7, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2016