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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.
At this summer's Siggraph—the premier computer-graphics conference—researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present new...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 25, 2012
MIT researchers have developed a system that can analyze several surveillance cameras more accurately and in less time than it would take a human operator. MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 6, 2012
Researchers at MIT, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Technology in Munich have shown that in a wired network, network coding and error...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 16, 2012
MIT professor Nancy Leveson recently hosted a workshop to educate more than 250 safety engineering professionals from around the world about System-Theoretic Accident...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2012
When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s initially on automobile assembly lines—computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 25, 2012
Most computer chips today have anywhere from four to 10 separate cores, or processing units, which can work in parallel, increasing the chips' efficiency. But the...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 17, 2012
MIT researchers have established theoretical limits on the efficiency of packet-switched on-chip communication networks, and have presented measurements from a...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 11, 2012
Aircraft-carrier crew use a set of standard hand gestures to guide planes on the carrier deck. But as robot planes are increasingly used for routine air missions...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 16, 2012
Sometimes the fastest pathway from point A to point B is not a straight line: for example, if you're underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 12, 2012
MIT researchers have developed Hornet, a software simulator they say models the performance of multicore chips much more accurately than its predecessors. MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2012
Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 9, 2012
Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, are small devices with huge potential. Typically made of components less than 100 microns in size—the diameter of a human...MIT News Office From ACM News | February 29, 2012
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity—and the technical expertise to build them may reside...MIT News Office From ACM News | February 17, 2012
Researchers at MIT, Tel Aviv University, and Google have developed a coding scheme that guarantees the fastest possible delivery of data over fluctuating wireless...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 13, 2012
The design of aromas—the flavors of packaged food and drink and the scents of cleaning products, toiletries and other household items—is a multibillion-dollar business...MIT News Office From ACM News | January 25, 2012
Researchers at MIT and the University of Utah have developed a technique that they say surpasses the fundamental limits of microchip design and could lead to more...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2011
MIT researchers have developed a system that enables hardware designers to specify, in a single programming language, all of the functions they want a device to...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 14, 2011
Consider the following scenario: A scout surveys a high-rise building that's been crippled by an earthquake, trapping workers inside. After looking for a point...MIT News Office From ACM News | November 30, 2011