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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Gps Tech Built to Find Missing Aircraft Not Always Used
Aviation experts have cited multiple possible reasons for the problems in the multi-country effort to locate the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that dropped off the...
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Half of Americans Want to Live in a Smart City With Driverless Cars
Nearly half of Americans want to live in a city where all vehicles are driverless, and a third think that might happen in the next 10 years, according to an Intel...
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Researchers Plan to se Nano-Satellites as Space Traffic Cops
Researchers are developing a team of small satellites that will serve as traffic cops in space.
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Researchers Aim to Revolutionize 3D Printing, Global Manufacturing
Researchers are developing new materials to be used for 3D printing, and are working on a technique for building multiple materials into the same product.
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By 2018, Cars Will Be Self-Aware
"Cars will become the first robot most of us experience in our lifetime," says Gartner analyst Thilo Koslowski.
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Researchers Compete to Bring Humanoid Robots to Life
During the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Robotics Challenge, researchers will compete to enable humanoid robots to collaborate with humans.
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Sweet! Tiny, Far-Flying Robot Based on Honeybee
Researchers are developing a flying robot based on the honeybee.
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Bug Bounty Program Slates $300k Mobile Hacking Contest For November
Hewlett-Packard Tipping Point's bug bounty program will sponsor the second annual Mobile Pwn2Own contest this fall.
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Nissan Plans to Offer Affordable Self-Driving Cars By 2020
Nissan says it is on track to begin selling self-driving cars by the end of this decade.
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Researchers se Augmented Reality to Coach Train Drivers
Central University of Queensland researchers are improving train driving simulations with augmented reality in order to facilitate drivers' skills development....
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NASA Calls on Researchers to Build Smarter Space Robot
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced a new challenge focused on building a smart robot.
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Nasa Working on Tech to Take Humans to Mars – and Bring Them Back
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is working on the technologies needed to take astronauts to Mars and back.
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Watson and the Future of Cognitive Computing
Many applications being explored on the Watson supercomputer involve processing huge volumes of data rapidly to enable cognitive systems to engage with people in...
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Harvard Global Grid Computing Project Will Help Create Printable Solar Cells
Harvard University's Clean Energy Project soon will release a list of organic compounds that could be used to make inexpensive, printable photovoltaic cells.
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nsw Researchers Push Open Source, Android For Archeology
The Federated Archeological Information Management System Project aims to develop new archeological tools compatible with Android-based mobile devices.
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Csiro Telepresence Robots Connect Students With National Museum
Australia's National Museum has launched a trial that enables schoolchildren to remotely navigate its galleries via robots that contain telepresence technology. ...
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City Living: There's an App For That
U.S. citizens increasingly are developing mobile applications that rely on a wealth of publicly available municipal data. For example, Portland, Ore., has developed...
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High-Performance Computing Turns to Apps to Cut Cost and Frustration
The concept of apps could enable more companies to take advantage of high-performance computing (HPC), considering the cost of HPC hardware and software makes adoption...
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App That Allows Deaf People to Verbally Communicate Wins Imagine Cup
First place in the 2012 Imagine Cup went to a Ukrainian university team that developed an application that enables deaf people to verbally communicate using sensory...
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