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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.
New technique could diminish errors that hamper the performance of super-fast analog optical neural networks.
MIT News From ACM News | November 30, 2022
A study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers revealed the difficulty of comparing neural networks to the brain.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2022
An international team of researchers taught a machine learning system with computer vision to monitor and control three-dimensional printing in real time.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 8, 2022
A general-purpose optimizer aims to speed development of autonomous robotic systems by using an optimization code that automatically determines how to boost performance...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2022
Two new security techniques block power and electromagnetic side-channel attacks targeting analog-to-digital converters in smart devices.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2022
Scientists developed the VALHALLA machine learning method to hallucinate images of written words, and using those to help translate that text into target languages...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2022
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