Communications of the ACM
Scanning the Skies for Danger
Finding dangerous asteroids by reverse-engineering their orbits.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM TechNews
Academics Hide Humans From Surveillance Cameras With 2D Prints
Researchers have developed a technique of using simple two-dimensional images to render wearers invisible to surveillance cameras.
From ACM TechNews
In Australia, Hacked Lime Scooters Spew Racism, Profanity
Vandals hacked the audio files of scooters in Australia, to make them generate profanities and racist speech.
From ACM TechNews
Coming to Store Shelves: Cameras That Guess Your Age, Sex
Retailers are testing in-store cameras designed to guess shoppers' ages and genders, to inform real-time advertisements on store video screens.
From ACM TechNews
AI That Spots Inequality Could Monitor Living Conditions in Cities
Researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to detect inequalities in four U.K. cities using a combination of government statistics and images from Google...
From Communications of the ACM
Questioning Quantum
Researchers hunt for ways to keep quantum computing honest.
From ACM TechNews
Training Data for Autonomous Driving
Understand.ai is a startup launched in Germany to improve and accelerate the labeling of image elements for autonomous driving algorithms.
From ACM TechNews
IARPA Is Investing in AI That Constantly Analyzes Worldwide Satellite Images
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity has released a draft solicitation for an analytics tool that can combine satellite images and detect human...
From ACM TechNews
Software Tool Could Provide Answers to Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions
A new software tool combines machine learning with digital signal processing to make it possible to definitively answer challenging questions.
From ACM TechNews
Firefighters Had Secret Weapon When Notre Dame Caught Fire: A Robot Named 'Colossus'
Paris firefighters used a 1,100-pound, tank-like robot to mitigate damage to Notre Dame cathedral and prevent the conflagration from spreading further by entering...
From ACM TechNews
Aviation Automation Climbs New Heights With ALIAS
DARPA's Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) project aims to develop autonomous artificial intelligences to improve flight safety and performance...
From ACM News
If Your Image Is Online, It Might Be Training Facial-Recognition AI
The photo is undeniably cute: a mom and a dad—he with a stubbly beard and rimless glasses, she with choppy brown hair and a wide grin—goofing around and eating...
From ACM TechNews
Can a Computer Write a Script? Machine Learning Goes Hollywood
The idea of using machine learning programs to help write scripts and other tasks is becoming increasingly popular in Hollywood.
From ACM News
YouTube's Notre Dame-9/11 Flub Highlights AI's Blind Spots
YouTube might need a few more humans. The machines whose job is to tamp down conspiracy theories are not cutting it just yet.
From ACM TechNews
Algorithms to Enhance Forest Inventories
A researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has developed algorithms capable of determining inventory parameters of trees over large...
From ACM TechNews
A Robot Has Figured Out How to se Tools
A new robotic system can figure out at least the first principles of tool use, through a combination of experimentation and observation.
From ACM TechNews
Robotic Heads Powered by AI to Help Passengers at Major German Airport
Frankfurt Airport in Germany is the site of a six-week trial of a robotic head powered by artificial intelligence as an information resource for travelers.
From ACM TechNews
Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa
Amazon employs thousands of people around the world to listen to voice recordings captured in Echo owners' homes and offices.
From ACM TechNews
Self-Driving Car Learns to Navigate Narrow European Streets Like a Human Driver
U.K. startup Wayve said it has created an autonomous vehicle that can learn to drive the way a human does, through trial and error, using cameras and satellite...
From ACM TechNews
Machine Learning Is Making Pesto Even More Delicious
Researchers have used machine learning to create basil plants that are extra-tasty.
From ACM TechNews