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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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
Augmented or mixed reality, which renders virtual images in a view of the real world, can be spectacular to experience. But it may be even more fun when you bring...Technology Review From ACM News | October 13, 2015
When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, he's not talking about someone who arranges his record collection...Technology Review From ACM News | October 9, 2015
The University of Maryland's Autonomy, Robotics, and Cognition Lab is developing robots that can learn how to do a new job by watching others do it first. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
It can take weeks to reprogram an industrial robot to perform a complicated new task, which makes retooling a modern manufacturing line painfully expensive and...Technology Review From ACM News | October 5, 2015
When NASA scientists announced that instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sensed signs of liquid water seeping on the Martian surface, they meant a solution...Technology Review From ACM News | October 2, 2015
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are developing a robot that will be able to assemble an IKEA chair. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 1, 2015
Computational linguistics has dramatically changed the way researchers study and understand language.Technology Review From ACM News | September 22, 2015
Several hundred users of Facebook's mobile messaging app late last month were given access to M, the social network's new artificial intelligence-based virtual...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2015
Imperial College London's Matthew Lai has developed a new artificial intelligence machine which he says can play chess at a master level.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2015
I woke up on Saturday to a heartbreaking front-page article in the New York Times about a terminally ill young woman who chooses to freeze her brain.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 16, 2015
Researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan have developed a photon gun and a single photon detector that uses the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2015
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took...Technology Review From ACM News | September 15, 2015
The ultimate nightmare for critics of the Iran nuclear deal being debated in Congress is that somehow, despite the agreement and all its built-in safeguards, Iran...Technology Review From ACM News | September 11, 2015