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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.
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
Imagine an oak tree in a field of wheat, silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky on a dreamy sunny afternoon.Technology Review From ACM News | May 28, 2015
A team of researchers has developed a machine-vision algorithm that can identify and highlight beautiful images.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 27, 2015
Chinese search giant Baidu says it has invented a powerful supercomputer that brings new muscle to an artificial-intelligence technique giving software more power...Technology Review From ACM News | May 15, 2015
In a month's time, a motley assortment of robots will attempt to navigate a punishing obstacle course laid out in a fairground park in Pomona, California.Technology Review From ACM News | May 12, 2015
Memristors, exotic electronic devices only confirmed to exist in 2008, have been used to create a chip that borrows design points from the brain.Technology Review From ACM News | May 7, 2015
The cocktail party effect is the ability to focus on a specific human voice while filtering out other voices or background noise.Technology Review From ACM News | May 1, 2015
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the...Technology Review From ACM News | April 14, 2015
New artificial intelligence software developed by Facebook can process text and then answer questions about it. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2015
We have self-driving cars, knowledgeable digital assistants, and software capable of putting names to faces as well as any expert.Technology Review From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.Technology Review From ACM News | February 20, 2015
Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior, such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an...Technology Review From ACM News | January 8, 2015
The holy grail of artificial intelligence—creating software that comes close to mimicking human intelligence—remains far off. But 2014 saw major strides in machine...Technology Review From ACM News | December 30, 2014
One of the most exciting changes influencing modern life is the ability to search and interact with information on a scale that has never been possible before.Technology Review From ACM News | December 16, 2014