Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Using AI to Control Digital Manufacturing
An international team of researchers taught a machine learning system with computer vision to monitor and control three-dimensional printing in real time.
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Machines That See the World More Like Humans Do
The 3D Scene Perception via Probabilistic Programming system helps machines perceive the world in a more human-like manner.
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Toward Speech Recognition for Uncommon Spoken Languages
The new Prune, Adjust, and Re-Prune (PARP) technique allows an advanced speech-learning model learn uncommon spoken languages more easily.
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One Giant Leap for the Mini Cheetah
A new control system enhances the speed and agility of legged robots as they leap across gaps.
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System Cleans Messy Data Tables Automatically
A system developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology automatically cleans "dirty data."
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To the Brain, Reading Computer Code Is Not the Same as Reading Language
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University neuroscientists have found that reading computer code activates different brain regions than reading...
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Computer-Aided Creativity in Robot Design
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a system that simulates and optimizes robot design and control programs.
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Integrating Electronics Onto Physical Prototypes
MIT researchers directly integrated three-dimensionally (3D)-printed platforms onto physical products.
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Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences in Wikipedia Articles
A new system can automatically update factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles.
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'Sensorized' Skin Helps Soft Robots Find Their Bearings
Researchers have created "sensorized" skin to increase soft robots' awareness of their bodily motion and orientation.
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Automated System Generates Robotic Parts for Novel Tasks
Researchers have developed an automated system that can design and print in three dimensions complex robotic parts optimized to a large number of specifications...
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Algorithm Tells Robots Where Nearby Humans are Headed
A new algorithm accurately aligns partial trajectories in real time, allowing motion predictors in self-driving cars to accurately anticipate the timing of a person's...
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Robots That Can Sort Recycling
A new robotic system can detect if an object is paper, metal, or plastic.
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Big Issues on the Table at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver listened to a question on stage Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, paused for a moment, and delivered a surprising...
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Identifying Artificial Intelligence 'Blind Spots'
A novel model developed by MIT and Microsoft researchers identifies instances in which autonomous systems have "learned" from training examples that don't match...
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Team Invents Method to Shrink Objects to the Nanoscale
MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials...
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E.T., We're Home
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into...
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Wireless Communication Breaks Through Water-Air Barrier
MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne...
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How to Control Robots with Brainwaves and Hand Gestures
Getting robots to do things isn't easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language...
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