Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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AI-Driven Robots Are Improving Solar Cells, Other Technologies
A new single-armed robotic system is equipped with an artificial intelligence algorithm, in order to perform materials science design tests.
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Princeton Researchers Listen In on the Chemical Conversation of the Human Microbiome
New computer algorithms that can detect biosynthetic gene clusters by analyzing and interpreting metagenomic sequencing data from the tissues or excretions of human...
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Recognizing Kin
Researchers are using convolutional neural networks pre-trained on faces from the largest visual database of families to date, to identify people's relatives.
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A Self-Driving Truck Delivered Butter from California to Pennsylvania in Three Days
Startup Plus.ai has completed the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck.
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Advanced Technology May Indicate How Brain Learns Faces
Researchers have demonstrated that deep convolutional neural networks operate similarly to the way human brains do, in terms of identifying faces.
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Spying on Hippos with Drones to Help Conservation
Researchers in Australia are using drones to help conservation efforts for hippos.
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A Sobering Message About the Future at AI's Biggest Party
Leaders in artificial intelligence warn that progress is slowing, big challenges remain, and simply throwing more computers at a problem isn't sustainable.
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Introducing the AI Index 2019 Report
The AI Index 2019 Report is an independent initiative within Stanford University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute, the result of a collaborative...
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Killer Robots Aren’t Regulated. Yet.
"Killing in the Age of Algorithms" is a New York Times documentary examining the future of artificial intelligence and warfare.
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Researchers Criticize AI Software That Predicts Emotions
The AI Now Institute at New York University is urging a ban on the use of artificial intelligence that automatically analyzes facial expressions to influence hiring...
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Japanese Researchers Teaching Robots to Repair Themselves
Researchers have demonstrated how to teach a PR2 robot to perform simple repairs on itself by tightening its own screws.
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Framework Brings Accuracy, Efficiency to Identifying Stop Words
An algorithmic approach for data analysis automatically recognizes uninformative words, known as stop words, in a large collection of text.
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Facebook's AI Masters the Card Game Hanabi
Researchers at Facebook have taught the company's artificial intelligence software how to play the game Hanabi, a Solitaire-like card game that requires players...
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Do We Need A Theory of AI?
What would a theory of artificial intelligence look like, and how might it be achieved?
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Emotion-Sensing Robot Launches to Assist Space Station Astronauts
A robot with emotion-sensing voice detectors has been launched to the International Space Station.
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Columbia University researchers achieve a meeting of minds on Artificial Intelligence-assisted hearing technology.
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China Issues Rules to Clamp Down on Deepfake Technologies
China has issued rules banning online video and audio providers from generating, distributing, and broadcasting fake news as it cracks down on deepfake technologies...
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Tesla’s Autopilot Could Save the Lives of Millions, But It Will Kill Some People First
The complicated ethics of Elon Musk's grand autonomous vehicle experiment.
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Robot Prototype Shows Promise for Microsurgery on Eyes, Aneurysms
Researchers have developed a continuum robot that achieves multi-scale motion and may allow previously impossible complex microsurgeries.
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