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.
From ACM TechNews
Mitsubishi Planning Predictive User Interface For Cars
Mitsubishi Electric recently demonstrated prototype technology that predicts in-car operations.
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Nasa Jsc Unveils 'valkyrie' Drc Robot
When teams participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced last year, almost all of them provided reasonably detailed renderings that gave us...
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Scrambled Code Keeps Software Safe
Computer scientists have developed a "mathematical obfuscation" scheme to prevent hackers from reverse-engineering software.
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This Robot Wants to Beat You at Air Hockey
Researchers have developed an air-hockey robot that can change its strategy in response to the playing style of its human opponent.
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Nanoscale Chip Design Enables Future 'internet of Things'
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...
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Google Glass Features and Apps Still in Flux
In an interview, Google Glass project leader Babak Parviz discusses where the wearable device is heading in the near future.
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Robotics Trends For 2012
IEEE's Erico Guizzo and Hizook.com founder Travis Deyle make several predictions regarding what will be big news in robotics this year.
From ACM Opinion
It's Time to Start 3d Scanning the World
When Microsoft was developing its Kinect 3D sensor, a critical task was to calibrate its algorithms to rapidly and accurately recognize parts of the human body,...
From ACM News
The Future of Riots
On 6 August, peaceful protests over the police shooting of a local man in London's Tottenham district exploded into full-blown riots. During four days of assaults...
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The Making of Arduino
How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm.
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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion...
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Big Win For the Losers at D-Wave
Does D-Wave's first big sale disprove the quantum computing naysayers?
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Building the Lego niverse Online
Lego Universe, the online computer game scheduled for release in October, marks the legendary company's first foray into massively multiplayer gaming, and for...
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The Man Who Made a Copy of Himself
Roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, one of the world's most brilliant—and controversial—android makers, has built android copies of a child, a woman, and now, himself.
From ACM TechNews