Researchers found artificial intelligence's “neurons” behaved similarly to neurons in the human brain when playing classic Atari video games.
California Institute of Technology From ACM TechNews | January 11, 2021
Amazon researcher Aleksander Kubica won the world's first quantum chess tournament during the virtual Practical Quantum Computing (Q2B) conference.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 30, 2020
The MuZero artificial intelligence developed by Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind can master games without learning their rules beforehand.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 28, 2020
Researchers are pushing beyond the limitations of convolutional neural networks using geometric deep learning techniques.
Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2021
Scientists at the U.K.'s University of Bath have captured 360-degree virtual reality video footage using a commercially available camera on a rotating selfie stick...University of Bath (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | December 15, 2020
A Georgia Institute of Technology music technologist modified an improvisational musical robot called Shimon to create lyrics and perform rap in real time.
Scientific American From ACM TechNews | December 11, 2020
Visually impaired people can enjoy Christmas lights in Madrid through a mobile application from researchers at Spain's Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) From ACM TechNews | December 11, 2020
Researchers found a weak relationship between early technology use and later technology use, indicating fears of widespread, long-lasting tech addiction may be...Business Standard From ACM TechNews | November 24, 2020
The last decade has seen major advancements in technology for the blind and visually impaired, but problems remain.
Logan Kugler From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2020
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2020
University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists have developed a countermeasure against video game cheaters.
UT Dallas News Center From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2020
The long-standing goal of providing artificial intelligence some measure of common sense remains elusive.
Don Monroe From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2020
The desire for faster, higher-frequency wireless networking is a constant. Terahertz technology could deliver large gains.
Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2020
A U.S. engineering company has designed a robot dolphin in the hope that such animatronic machines eventually could substitute for captive animals at theme parks...Reuters From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2020
Researchers in Israel discovered a security breach that would let hackers eavesdrop on users through voice-command remote controls from the Comcast cable TV service...The Jerusalem Post From ACM TechNews | October 9, 2020
A new algorithm trains an adversarial bot to automatically identify and exploit the weaknesses of master game bots trained by deep reinforcement learning algorithms...Penn State News From ACM TechNews | October 1, 2020