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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A personalized deep learning network is designed to help robots gauge the effect of autism therapy on children, using data that is unique to each patient.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 6, 2018
A new machine learning algorithm can register brain scans and other three-dimensional images about 1,000 times faster than previously possible using novel learning...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 26, 2018
Getting robots to do things isn't easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language...MIT News From ACM News | June 21, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers reduced the size and power consumption of a computer chip they designed in 2017 to help honeybee-sized drones...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 20, 2018
Researchers have developed an ultra-high-frequency radio-frequency identification tag-sensor configuration that senses spikes in glucose and wirelessly transmits...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2018
A new transmitter can hack-proof wireless data by frequency hopping each individual 1 or 0 bit of a data packet, every microsecond.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2018
A new algorithm developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers can refresh data within a simple wireless communication system.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 11, 2018
Researchers have highly maneuverable autonomous boats that, in waterway-rich cities, could be used to transport people or deliver goods.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 30, 2018
A new algorithm developed by the MIT CSAIL could improve the way driverless vehicles change lanes. The algorithm allows for more aggressive lane changes and will...MIT News From ACM News | May 25, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created an albatross-like robot that can skim along the water's surface while also surfing the waves like a...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2018
Systems of mathematical equations can forecast the most informative data to collect for an autonomous underwater vehicle mission and the best way to reach the sampling...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 15, 2018
Observing the world's oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)—marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide...MIT News From ACM News | May 14, 2018
Researchers have used a deep neural network to build the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre....MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2018
A new streamlined approach to developing antimicrobial peptide drugs uses a computer algorithm that mimics natural evolution.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 16, 2018
Researchers have trained a machine learning system to search for debris disks around stars using telescopic data.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 2, 2018
A microfluidic platform links engineered tissues from multiple human organs to replicate organ-drug interactions so medications' effects on different parts of the...MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2018