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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.
A team of Disney Research scientists last week unveiled a bipedal robotic character combining a child-size frame with stubby legs, wiggling antennae, and an expressive...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 13, 2023
Engineers at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee developed a potentially mass-producible $1 sensor that can detect contaminants...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 1, 2023
U.S. pharmacy chain CVS is among those interested in a pill-tracking device created by Virginia-based high school student Archishma Marrapu.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2023
The Calico assistive robot developed by researchers at the University of Maryland can be worn on the user's clothes, where it runs along a track to perform various...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 21, 2023
Scientists from Google DeepMind evaluated the agility of quadripedal robots with a dog-agility-inspired course called Barkour.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 19, 2023
Qing Shi and colleagues at China's Beijing Institute of Technology built a rat-inspired robot that can squeeze through tight spaces, which could be used to assess...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2022
Online employment marketplace Hired's 2022 State of Software Engineers report found mounting cyberattacks last year raised demand for security engineers.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2022
IEEE Spectrum's 2021 interactive rankings of the top programming languages lists Python as the platform of choice for new technologies. The continued dominance...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2021
Python's dominance as the most popular programming language is holding steady in 2020, according to IEEE Spectrum's latest rankings of top languages.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 24, 2020
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is testing a pilot artificial intelligence system for use on a future Mars mission.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2020
A team of researchers at the University of Tehran in Iran has developed a fourth version of the Surena humanoid robotic system.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2020
Researchers have developed a hand-tracking system to determine how long it would take a driver to assume control of a self-driving car in an emergency.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2019
Researchers have developed a method of detecting malicious apps that sneak through Apple's App Store screening process and onto some users’ phones.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2019
A survey on the love/hate relationships between software engineers and coding languages found Google's Go language was the global leader.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 8, 2019