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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.
Soft robots developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University can transition from walking to swimming or crawling to rolling, shifts found in most animals....Carnegie Mellon University From ACM TechNews | March 21, 2023
Researchers at Australia's Flinders University were inspired by insect biology to build robots equipped with a brain capable of comprehending their environment....ABC News (Australia) From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2023
Researchers at the Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology are chasing quantum efficiency.
R. Colin Johnson Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | March 16, 2023
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed an autonomous robot, ALAN, that can make decisions and complete tasks based on its observations of its environment...Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2023
The first successful delivery of a human donor lung by aerial drone in Toronto, Canada, has implications for the future of transplant science.
Scientific American From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2023
A "cyborg" technique developed by Harvard University researchers can monitor the functional maturation of heart tissue using nanoelectronics.
Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences From ACM TechNews | March 14, 2023
The Saildrone Surveyor unmanned surface vehicle has completed the mapping of the previously uncharted ocean floor off the Alaska and California coasts.
FOX Weather From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2023
The researchers demonstrated the technique is scalable at the wafer level, which would make it an attractive option for future quantum computing.
Pennsylvania State University From ACM News | March 10, 2023
Ohio State University said researchers at its College of Medicine have developed a virtual reality training program that represents a mass casualty event realistically...GCN From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2023
Real estate builders and investors envision the metaverse as the new housing market, with contractors like Gabe Sierra offering virtual twins of the properties...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 7, 2023
This newly emerging approach to quantum computation uses a novel silicon-based qubit device architecture to trap single electrons in quantum dots.
HRL Laboratories From ACM News | March 7, 2023
AT&T chemist found a better way to make transistors and helped manage the phone company's breakup.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 6, 2023
Researchers in France found so-called "cat qubits” (quantum bits) could reduce errors by quantum computers and accelerate the cracking of common encryption algorithms...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2023
The Unconventional Computing Laboratory of the U.K.'s University of the West of England focuses on developing chemical or living computers that can interface with...Popular Science From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2023
Robotics companies aim to create machines like startup Figure's just-unveiled Figure 01 bipedal humanoid robot to take on manual labor currently performed by humans...Fast Company From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2023
Artificial intelligence is enhancing physicians' diagnostic abilities to better identify patients who might be vulnerable to certain ailments.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | March 2, 2023
New studies broaden the perspectives on what constitutes a "computer" and how small a computational unit can be.
SciTechDaily From ACM News | March 2, 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have combined computer vision and wireless perception into X-AR, an augmented reality (AR) headset that can visualize...MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 1, 2023
The Ordered Reliability Bits Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding decoder chip uses a more energy-efficient technique for decoding data transmissions based on...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 28, 2023