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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Machine-learning technologies are undergoing a transformation, appearing in products and systems that experts predict will be less expensive and more focused on...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 30, 2016
Driving your car until it breaks down on the road is never anyone's favorite way to learn the need for routine maintenance.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 28, 2016
Duke University researchers say they have developed a custom processor to perform robotic motion planning that accelerates the process by three orders of magnitude...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2016
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab are working to develop autonomous quadcopters that can fly through windows without running into them. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2016
As artificial intelligence technologies increasingly are deployed to meet industrial and personal needs, the field will need to address its lack of ethnic and gender...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2016
Google has launched a Google Translate upgrade utilizing enhanced deep-learning techniques to produce more accurate translations.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2016
With robots expected to play an increasingly critical role in making judgment calls where human lives are at stake, it is imperative to model moral reasoning in...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2016
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt says the next major trend in the technology industry will be artificial intelligence. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 2, 2016
Researchers are developing an "artificial robot nervous system to teach robots how to feel pain" and quickly react in order to avoid potential damage. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 25, 2016
A recent study found the adoption of social robots into people's lives is complicated by humans' tendency to view human-like robots as a threat to their identity...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 10, 2016
Sean Andrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed algorithms to help robots look at people at the right times and in the right ways. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2016
A recurrent neural network developed at the University of California, San Diego can mine patterns in reviews and write its own contextually relevant reviews. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2016
As robotics researchers seek to develop more sophisticated and natural means for humans to interact with robots, they are also seeking to develop systems that will...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 23, 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
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
We've always known that the ATLAS DRC humanoid robot was due for some serious upgrades before the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, because having a robot that's...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 21, 2015
Intelligentsia of AI will gather to come up with a battery of alternatives to the traditional Turing test.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 20, 2015