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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.
A special session at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence Transportation Systems dealt with intelligent pedestrian traffic and evacuation dynamics.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2015
The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge is designed to assess how well cooperative robot systems perform as part of a simulated emergency-response operation.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 18, 2015
Laser-ranging (lidar) systems that most self-driving cars use to detect obstacles can be hacked by a setup costing about $60.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2015
New technological developments are fomenting an explosion in the diversity and application of robotics.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2015
Two Ph.D. students are seeking to determine how soon artificial intelligence might exceed the capabilities of the human brain. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
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...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2015
University College London researchers have developed a system that can sense people moving behind masonry walls 25 centimeters thick using only passive radiation...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2015
A team at Stanford University's Center for Design Research has developed the Real Road Autonomous Driving Simulation that fools human participants into thinking...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2015
An experiment to see how mall patrons react to a social robot surprisingly found children were hostile toward the robot. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2015
As big data technologies advance and the challenges of extracting meaning from these data sets shift, computer scientists will need new vocabulary. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2015
Argonne National Laboratory researcher Stephen Wu has found it may be possible to generate spin current from insulators without a magnetic material.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2015
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2015
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...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 2, 2015
Researchers are studying a class of materials capable of switching from an insulating state to a conductive, metallic one. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric says its new noise suppression technology can improve the quality of hands-free phone communication in cars. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2015
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2015
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. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 19, 2015
A security vulnerability in the iPhone 5 series of smartphone could be exploited by malicious software and compromise a user's personal information via Siri.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2015