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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.
The inability to practically apply indistinguishability obfuscation to deliver secure cryptography may be mitigated with an efficient method for functional encryption...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 28, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing a computer system that uses multiple types of data to help predict the effects of disease on brain...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers plan to present a machine-learning technique that enables semantically-related concepts to reinforce each other...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Philippe Rigollet and colleagues have developed an approach they say increases the effectiveness of online ads.MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can learn to distinguish spoken words.MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2015
The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology recently conducted an experiment in which self-driving golf carts carried 500 tourists around winding paths...MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2015
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Robust Robotics Group want to teach unmanned aerial vehicles and other robots to think for themselves...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 27, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed gallium nitride transistors to power electronic circuits.MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 30, 2015
Researchers say they have developed a statistical technique that yields better wind-speed predictions than existing techniques. MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Sergio Cantu studies how light can act as an information carrier in computing and calculating. MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 16, 2015
A multi-university team of researchers has demonstrated that mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into changing employment levels. MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2015
Artbot is a new mobile website app that mines both user preferences and event tags to provide users with connections to the local art scene. MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2015
Detailed new field studies, laboratory experiments, and simulations of the largest known "internal waves" in the Earth's oceans—phenomena that play a key role in...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 7, 2015
Researchers are using microscopic variations to "fingerprint" silicon chips used in consumer-product tags to combat product counterfeiting. MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2015
On July 1, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will officially launch the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2015
A new peer-to-peer networking tool enables people suffering from anxiety and depression to build online support communities and practice therapeutic methods. MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2015
New software can identify houses in rural villages from satellite images, potentially saving time that would otherwise be spent sending teams from village to village...MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2015
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | March 3, 2015
A new wireless transmitter design reduces off-state leakage 100-fold while providing adequate power for Bluetooth or 802.15.4 transmissions.MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 23, 2015
The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...MIT News From ACM News | February 20, 2015