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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A Game You Can Control With Your Mind
When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls.
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Robot the Musical
Artificial intelligence promises to change aspects of music ranging from rock concerts to advertising jingles.
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Meet Mappy, a Software System That Automatically Maps Old-School Nintendo Games
Mappy is a new software system that can autonomously generate maps of a video game's levels.
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It's All About Image
Image recognition technology is advancing rapidly. Researchers are discovering new ways to tackle the task without enormous datasets.
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Why GPS Spoofing Is a Threat to Companies, Countries
Technology that falsifies navigation data presents significant dangers to public and private organizations.
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Computers Will Stitch Together First-Ever Megamovie of Solar Eclipse
Researchers are working on the "Eclipse Megamovie" project, in which volunteers take photos of the solar eclipse's path across the U.S. and upload the images to...
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How AI Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
Innovators are using deep neural networks to train machines to produce artwork by analyzing massive datasets. Google researcher Douglas Eck envisions artificial...
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New Research Could Show How Legendary Musicians Would Play Modern Music
Researchers are developing a system that could be used to show how musicians from any era would have played a piece of music from any other era.
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New Tool Increases Adaptability, Autonomy of 'skyrim' Nonplayer Characters
CIF-CK is a new artificial intelligence architecture program that uses social behavior models to make individual "Skyrim" non-player characters more reactive and...
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How Apps Can Motivate You By Tapping Into Your Personality
Rita Orji at the University of Waterloo in Canada is designing interactive persuasive computer games customized to the player's motivational style.
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'magic Bench' Lets sers See, Hear, and Feel Animated Characters
Researchers at Disney have developed the "Magic Bench," a combined augmented and mixed reality experience in which multiple users experience virtual surroundings...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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AI-Generated Map Predicts Who Will Die Next in 'game of Thrones'
A new machine-learning algorithm can predict which characters on "Game of Thrones" will die next.
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The Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed With Youtube
Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none. Hence the tantrums and absurd demands.
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Neural Nets Model Audience Reactions to Movies
Disney researchers applied deep-learning neural networks to develop a new way of evaluating movie audiences' reactions using facial expressions.
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Why Virtual Reality Will Transform a Workplace Near You
A clutch of companies are changing how work gets done---by using virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.
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A New System to Estimate the Duration of a Walk in the Countryside
Researchers at the University of Seville have developed a system to estimate the time that it takes to complete a walk in the countryside. A system algorithm uses...
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Here's a Peek at the Iphone's Next Big Trick
We've all heard about the promise of augmented reality coming to the iPhone. With iOS 11 due later this year, Apple is releasing ARKit–a software that allows developers...
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