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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A mathematical framework aims to quantify and evaluate the understandability of a machine learning model's explanations for its predictions.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2022
To help combat discrimination in mortgage lending, a new process can remove bias from the data used to train machine learning models.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2022
Researchers have devleoped a method of incorporating fairness into machine learning models, even if they are trained on unfair data.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2022
Architects and engineers could design truss structures minimizing embodied carbon by using a new set of computational tools.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2021
Scientists have programmed a universal algorithm to enable a silicon chip to decode any data transmitted across a network, irrespective of structure.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2021
Scientists suggest crowdsourced assessments from groups of normal readers can virtually match those of professional fact-checkers in vetting news stories.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2021
A Twitter field experiment found that after corrections to tweeted misinformation, there was an increase in retweeting lower-quality and more partisan news.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2021
Researchers contend Russia's use of North Korean IP addresses for a 2018 cyberattack underscored the need for a new cybersecurity strategy involving selective retaliation...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 28, 2020
A platform developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can quantify security risks for companies without requiring them to disclose sensitive...MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2020
Researchers have developed an automated artificial intelligence system for training and running certain types of neural networks, which has a small carbon footprint...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have created a simulation system to train driverless cars prior to their deployment on actual streets.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2020
A new model can help autonomous vehicles determine when it is safe to proceed into traffic at intersections with obstructed views.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created a system that perceives tiny fluctuations in ground shadows to ascertain whether an unseen object is...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 28, 2019
Researchers suggest the vulnerability of compressed, or quantized, artificial intelligence models to adversarial attack could be remedied by adding a mathematical...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 2, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers demonstrated that crowdsourced judgments about the quality of news sources can marginalize online misinformation...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2019
A new machine learning technique can drastically reduce false positives in fraud-detecting technology that incorrectly flag credit card sales as suspicious.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2018
Researchers are using two main approaches to replacing black-box machine learning models with prediction methods that are more transparent.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2018
The new Veil system is designed to improve private browsing by guaranteeing that any data the browser loads into memory remains encrypted until it is displayed...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 28, 2018
Researchers have used a computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five U.S. cities.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2017