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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
An international research team lleveraged machine learning to model how waves break, which could help improve the design of offshore structures and climate prediction...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a machine learning method that enables robots to acquire new skills using a handful of human examples...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 28, 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
A new technique to prevent memory timing side-channel attacks by malware exploits memory hardware common to multiple programs running on the same computer.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 1, 2022
Twist is an MIT-developed programming language that can describe and verify which pieces of data are entangled to prevent bugs in a quantum program.
MIT News From ACM News | January 25, 2022
The deep learning GeoMol model can rapidly predict the three-dimensional shapes of drug-like molecules, which could expedite drug discovery.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2021
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
Research by neuroscientists suggests the latest predictive language models' underlying mechanism functions similarly to the human brain's language-processing centers...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed and applied a predictive model of pedestrian traffic to Melbourne, Australia.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 14, 2021
Researchers explored humans' ability to play a card game with an artificial intelligence model trained to play with teammates never before encountered.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 7, 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
Engineers have constructed an inflatable neuroprosthetic hand that restored rudimentary sensation to an amputee's residual limb.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 25, 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a system to detect and reduce errors when patients administer their own medication.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 22, 2021