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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 say Uber and Lyft's automated management systems establish new dynamics between workers and their bosses that should garner regulatory attention.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2015
Italian and Swiss researchers have created an experimental telepresence robot that can be operated by disabled people via brain signals. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2015
Tracking balls in some sports--such as basketball, volleyball, and soccer--is significantly harder for machine-vision algorithms than it is in other sports. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2015
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a machine-vision algorithm that can objectively analyze children's drawings. ...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2015
The improvement of image-recognition software via deep learning could help usher in an era of image-based Web shopping/browsing.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2015
The BioPhone project will derive a person's heart and breathing rates from a smartphone's accelerometer. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2015
The ability of robots to carry out tasks and move about their environment is increasingly impressive, but they still face major challenges. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 13, 2015
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says advances in machine learning would soon affect every product and service the company provides.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2015
China has experienced a tremendous amount of urban growth in the last 30 years, yet many of the newly built residential areas remain vacant. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2015
In a move that makes it possible to seamlessly combine your love of emojis with adorable animal videos, a group of researchers has built a prototype of a search...Technology Review From ACM News | October 30, 2015
Researchers have designed an artificial neural network to identify scenes in photographs taken by people using wearable cameras or mobile phones. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2015
Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use of an automated driving system, called Autopilot, in its Model S all-electric...Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2015
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man's spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant...Technology Review From ACM News | October 22, 2015
Symantec researchers recently found requiring numbers and uppercase characters in passwords does not do much to make them stronger. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2015
The behavior and interplay of two types of neurons in the brain helps give humans and other animals an uncanny ability to navigate by building a mental map of their...Technology Review From ACM News | October 20, 2015
In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar robots struggled to perform even simple tasks like climbing a flight of stairs; someimpeccable...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015