The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages
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From ACM TechNewsMIT News| March 17, 2023
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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
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
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
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
European researchers have developed a robot that is learning to make pizzas and pancakes by reading through WikiHow's written directions. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2015
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a robot that can help people wash their dishes. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2015
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists...Technology Review From ACM News | August 4, 2015
Brown University researchers have developed an approach that enables robots to quickly determine the sequence of actions that will work in a particular environment...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2015
The computer game Minecraft, which depicts a world made up of retro, pixelated blocks that can be modified and rearranged in endless architectural configurations...Technology Review From ACM News | July 15, 2015
In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been...Technology Review From ACM News | July 13, 2015
Google Street View offers panoramic views of more or less any city street in much of the developed world, as well as views along countless footpaths, inside shopping...Technology Review From ACM News | July 7, 2015
The importance of tracking motorist behavior will grow as more automated vehicles are rolled out, especially as it relates to the issue of assigning liability in...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 24, 2015
Karl Moritz Hermann and his team at Google DeepMind say the way some news sites display articles facilitates the creation of a database computers can use to learn...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 19, 2015
The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative." Technology Review From ACM News | June 17, 2015
A machine-learning technique that has already given computers an eerie ability to recognize speech and categorize images is now creeping into industries ranging...Technology Review From ACM News | June 2, 2015
University of Wyoming and Pierre and Marie Curie University researchers are developing robots that find ways to adapt and keep moving after an injury. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 1, 2015
Social robots like the quasi-anthropomorphic Jibo and Amazon's far more utilitarian Echo are beginning to find their places in our living rooms.Technology Review From ACM News | May 29, 2015