Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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
Kiran Garimella and colleagues at Aalto University in Finland say they have developed a more reliable way of spotting controversies in the Twitterstream in real...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 5, 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
A tiny artificial eye inspired by the vision systems of insects could help small flying drones navigate their surroundings well enough to avoid collisions while...Technology Review From ACM News | August 3, 2015
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have developed a method of matching infrared images and visible light images of the same face. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2015
Many cars today now come with limited voice control, but more elaborate and robust systems could be coming to cars soon. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 21, 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
Imagine you slack off at work and read up online about the latest Gibson 1959 Les Paul electric guitar replica.Technology Review From ACM News | July 2, 2015
A pair of identical paintings attributed to Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte has long mystified art experts as to which one is the original. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 26, 2015
Understanding how the brain works—or doesn't, as the case may be—depends on deciphering the patterns of electrical signals its neurons produce.Technology Review From ACM News | June 19, 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
Researchers say they have built a deep-learning machine that outperforms the average human's ability to answer verbal reasoning questions. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 15, 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
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