Robotic assistants could be used in nursing and retirement homes to help seniors care for themselves and assist with chores.
Nature From ACM TechNews | January 24, 2022
Proof-assistant software handles an abstract concept at the cutting edge of research, revealing a bigger role for software in mathematics.
Nature From ACM News | June 21, 2021
Software called TLDR (too long, didn't read) automatically produces one-sentence abstracts of research papers.
Nature From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2020
The open-source Julia language combines the speed of "compiled" languages such as Fortran and C with the interactivity and syntax of "scripting" languages such...Nature From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2019
A new artificial intelligence program beat elite professional poker players at six-player no-limit Texas hold'em poker.
Nature From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2019
Art historians are starting to utilize machine learning to provide empirical support for theories previously limited to the subjective eye of the beholders.
Nature From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2019
Researchers worldwide are racing to get ahead of a bug in the US Global Positioning System (GPS) that could cause data loggers, including thousands of scientific...Nature From ACM News | April 3, 2019
Last April, Amina Helmi felt goose bumps while driving to work in the northern Netherlands. It had nothing to do with the weather—it was pure anticipation. Just...Nature From ACM News | January 18, 2019
Universities on the continent are rapidly losing talent to industry in the United States and China, say scientists behind the initiative.
Nature From ACM News | December 17, 2018
In the winter of 1994, a young man in his early twenties named Tim was a patient in a London psychiatric hospital.
Nature From ACM News | October 30, 2018
The largest-ever multinational survey on machine ethics found many moral precepts that guide a driver's decisions are not universal.
Nature From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2018
Biophysicist Adam Cohen was strolling around San Francisco, California, in 2010, when a telephone call caught him by surprise. "We have a signal," said the caller...Nature From ACM News | September 25, 2018
Upload your latest holiday photos to Facebook, and there's a chance they'll end up stored in Prineville, Oregon, a small town where the firm has built three giant...Nature From ACM News | September 17, 2018
When computer scientist Christian Berger's team sought to get its project about self-driving vehicle algorithms on the road, it faced a daunting obstacle.
Nature From ACM News | September 11, 2018
Brent Hecht, chair of ACM's Future of Computing Academy, proposes revising the peer review process to ensure scientists report negative societal consequences of...Nature From ACM TechNews | August 1, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018