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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Children Beating p Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System
An experiment to see how mall patrons react to a social robot surprisingly found children were hostile toward the robot.
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Beyond Just 'big' Data
As big data technologies advance and the challenges of extracting meaning from these data sets shift, computer scientists will need new vocabulary.
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Spintronic Devices Possible Without Magnetic Material
Argonne National Laboratory researcher Stephen Wu has found it may be possible to generate spin current from insulators without a magnetic material.
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The 2015 Top 10 Programming Languages
Java remains at the top of IEEE Spectrum's second annual ranking of programming languages.
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Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots.
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The Computer Chip That Never Forgets
In 1945, mathematician John von Neumann wrote down a very simple recipe for a computer.
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Medical Microbots Take a Fantastic Voyage Into Reality
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...
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Soggy Computing: Liquid Devices Might Match the Brain's Efficiency
Researchers are studying a class of materials capable of switching from an insulating state to a conductive, metallic one.
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Mitsubishi Quiets Car Noise With Machine Learning
Mitsubishi Electric says its new noise suppression technology can improve the quality of hands-free phone communication in cars.
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Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10.
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Li-Fi-Like System Would Bring 100-Gbps Speeds Straight to Your Computer
Researchers are developing a system that takes light from optic fiber, amplifies it, and beams it across a room to deliver data at more than 100 Gbps.
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Malware Could Steal Data From Iphones sing Siri
A security vulnerability in the iPhone 5 series of smartphone could be exploited by malicious software and compromise a user's personal information via Siri.
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Atlas Drc Robot Is 75 Percent New, Completely nplugged
We've always known that the ATLAS DRC humanoid robot was due for some serious upgrades before the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, because having a robot that's...
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Artificial-Intelligence Experts to Explore Turing Test Triathlon
Intelligentsia of AI will gather to come up with a battery of alternatives to the traditional Turing test.
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Toshiba Android Will Take You For a Trip Down the ncanny Valley
Researchers have developed Aiko Chihiro, a lifelike communication android.
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To Foil Cyberattacks, Connected Cars Need Overlapping Shields
Smart cars will need many more layers of cyberprotection than automakers believe is necessary.
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
University of California, Berkeley professor Michael I. Jordan says rhetoric about machine learning and other computer science fields goes too far.
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.
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Robot Octopus Takes to the Sea
Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas researchers have nearly doubled the swimming speed of their robotic octopus.
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