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Why the Simplex Method, at Age 75, is Still the Go-To Algorithm
Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis… 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.
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The Fuzzy Logic of Fleeing For Your Life
A special session at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence Transportation Systems dealt with intelligent pedestrian traffic and evacuation dynamics.
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Europe Gears p For Land, Air, and Sea Robotics Competition
The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge is designed to assess how well cooperative robot systems perform as part of a simulated emergency-response operation.
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Researcher Hacks Self-Driving Car Sensors
Laser-ranging (lidar) systems that most self-driving cars use to detect obstacles can be hacked by a setup costing about $60.
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Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming For Robotics?
New technological developments are fomenting an explosion in the diversity and application of robotics.
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Estimate: Human Brain 30 Times Faster Than Best Supercomputers
Two Ph.D. students are seeking to determine how soon artificial intelligence might exceed the capabilities of the human brain.
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Fbi Wants Better Automated Image Analysis For Tattoos
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation collaborated with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to find a better way to search for matching tatoos...
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See Through Walls By the Glow of Your Wi-Fi
University College London researchers have developed a system that can sense people moving behind masonry walls 25 centimeters thick using only passive radiation...
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Testing Trust in Autonomous Vehicles By Fooling Human Passengers
A team at Stanford University's Center for Design Research has developed the Real Road Autonomous Driving Simulation that fools human participants into thinking...
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Children Beating p Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System
An experiment to see how mall patrons react to a social robot surprisingly found children were hostile toward the robot.
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Beyond Just 'big' Data
As big data technologies advance and the challenges of extracting meaning from these data sets shift, computer scientists will need new vocabulary.
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Spintronic Devices Possible Without Magnetic Material
Argonne National Laboratory researcher Stephen Wu has found it may be possible to generate spin current from insulators without a magnetic material.
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The 2015 Top 10 Programming Languages
Java remains at the top of IEEE Spectrum's second annual ranking of programming languages.
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Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots.
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The Computer Chip That Never Forgets
In 1945, mathematician John von Neumann wrote down a very simple recipe for a computer.
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Medical Microbots Take a Fantastic Voyage Into Reality
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...
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Soggy Computing: Liquid Devices Might Match the Brain's Efficiency
Researchers are studying a class of materials capable of switching from an insulating state to a conductive, metallic one.
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Mitsubishi Quiets Car Noise With Machine Learning
Mitsubishi Electric says its new noise suppression technology can improve the quality of hands-free phone communication in cars.
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Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10.
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Li-Fi-Like System Would Bring 100-Gbps Speeds Straight to Your Computer
Researchers are developing a system that takes light from optic fiber, amplifies it, and beams it across a room to deliver data at more than 100 Gbps.
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