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From ACM NewsKaren Emslie Commissioned by CACM Staff| March 2, 2021
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3D structure.MIT News Office From ACM News | August 5, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gilbert Strang has developed a way to split certain types of matrices into simpler ones, which could help produce...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 30, 2010
A new system that took a couple hours to decipher much of the ancient language Ugaritic could help improve online translation software.MIT News Office From ACM News | July 1, 2010
A new network design that avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones could boost capacity while reducing power consumption.MIT News Office From ACM News | June 28, 2010
The World Wide Web Consortium recently published the Rule Interchange Format, a new standard that should help bring the idea of the Semantic Web closer to reality...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 24, 2010
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's McGovern Institute of Brain Research have devised a computational model describing how the primate brain...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 7, 2010
MIT researchers have developed a system that automatically finds parts of computer code where accuracy can be traded for significant increases in speed. MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 14, 2010
New object recognition systems that deconstruct images into ever smaller elements, using methods developed at MIT and UCLA, should be much more efficient than previous...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2010
MIT researchers have developed software that makes computer simulations of physical systems run more efficiently on multicore chips. MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2010
Though still in its infancy, the work of Alexey Radul as a postdoc at MIT could someday have consequences for artificial-intelligence research, parallel computing...MIT News From ACM News | April 28, 2010
Stroke patients who received robot-assisted therapy were able to regain some ability to use their arms, even if the stroke had occurred years earlier, according...MIT News From ACM News | April 20, 2010
MIT researchers have developed Surround Vision, a system that works with Internet-connected handheld devices to enable TV viewers to see what is happening off screen...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2010
Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings, director of MIT's Humans and Automation Laboratory, wants to make it easier for humans to supervise automatic control systems,...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2010
MIT research scientist Noah Goodman has developed Church, a programming language that combines a rules-based artificial intelligence system with probabilistic inference...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2010
Researchers at MIT and in Korea have developed an approach to water desalination that could lead to small, portable units powered by solar cells or batteries that...MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a system to keep Web servers running even when they are under attack from cybercriminals. MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a way to improve object recognition systems by using information about their context. MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2010
A new system that lets people enter data into a tablet computer simply by drawing diagrams on the screen could lead to interactive whiteboards.MIT News Office From ACM News | February 19, 2010
Communications networks' efficiency could be upgraded with a new network coding approach co-developed by researchers at MIT in which a router mathematically combines...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 10, 2010