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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.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other researchers developed a technique that uses computer-generated data to help vision and language models better understand...MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2023
Researchers used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and computational modeling to demonstrate silica network polymerization.
Agencia FAPESP (Brazil) From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2023
Researchers discovered thousands of new transformable knots via a computational pipeline combining randomized spatial sampling and physics modeling.
EPFL (Switzerland) From ACM TechNews | September 12, 2023
Argentine publicist Santiago Barros uses an app to produce images of what children taken from their parents during Argentina's military dictatorship might look...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | September 12, 2023
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego created an "engineered living material" for clearing water of contaminants.
UC San Diego Today From ACM TechNews | September 12, 2023
Researchers at Canada-based Citizen Lab found a vulnerability in Apple devices was used to spread spyware from Israeli cyber-intelligence group NSO.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2023
Computer scientists and mathematicians have designed a framework for evaluating synchronized phenomena.
University of Sydney (Australia) From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2023
Mathematicians have identified 12,392 new stable orbital arrangements for three objects as allowed by Isaac Newton's laws of motion, also known as the three-body...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2023
Workers in Las Vegas are closely watching employers' adoption of artificial intelligence and other technologies rise as they strive to cut labor costs.
NPR From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2023
U.S. aerospace company Redwire said it has three-dimensionally-printed a human body part in space for the first time.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2023
The Bayesian experimental autonomous researcher robotics laboratory at Canada's University of Toronto has discovered the most energy-absorbent mechanical structure...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 7, 2023
Computer scientists claim to have created the first algorithm for seamlessly concealing messages in realistic text, images, or audio.
Scientific American From ACM TechNews | September 7, 2023
A study by researchers at Canada's University of British Columbia found that a period of gradual transition will be necessary for road users to feel comfortable...UBC News (Canada) From ACM TechNews | September 7, 2023
Scientists in South Korea compared a custom robotic system developed for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) coil placement to traditional manual methods in...News-Medical.net From ACM TechNews | September 7, 2023
Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting codes suggests that the task might be slightly more feasible...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | September 7, 2023
A new device combines ultra-thin two-dimensional semiconductors and ferroelectric materials, with the goal of integrating digital logic and brain-inspired analog...EPFL News (Switzerland) From ACM TechNews | September 6, 2023
Researchers developed a graph neural network that reliably matched human volunteers' identification of 55 odors, then predicted the smells of 500,000 additional...Science From ACM TechNews | September 6, 2023