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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.
MIT researchers find new way to quantify the uncertainty in molecular energies predicted by neural networks
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2021
A novel model developed by MIT and Microsoft researchers identifies instances in which autonomous systems have "learned" from training examples that don't match...MIT News From ACM News | January 28, 2019
MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials...MIT News From ACM News | December 17, 2018
MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 22, 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
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
When engineers design a new aircraft, they carry out much of the initial testing not on full-sized jets but on model planes that have been scaled down to fit inside...MIT News From ACM News | May 31, 2017
Researchers have developed a new method that could help lead to the development of practical, diamond-based quantum computing devices.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 26, 2017
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...MIT News From ACM News | May 10, 2017
A new set of algorithms developed is capable of efficiently model-fitting probability distributions to high-dimensional data. MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 31, 2016
Researchers have taken a step toward practical quantum computing with a prototype chip that traps ions in an electric field and directs laser light at each of them...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2016
Synthetic biology allows researchers to program cells to perform novel functions such as fluorescing in response to a particular chemical or producing drugs in...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 21, 2016
Researchers are hypothesizing that the study of ant colony behavior could lead to improved network communication algorithms. MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2016
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 12, 2016
Researchers have discovered a sheet of graphene can cause an electric current to surpass the speed of decelerated light and rapidly generate a focused beam. MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 13, 2016
A course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory aimed to create a fleet of duckie-adorned self-driving...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2016
Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 21, 2016
Researchers have developed a quantum computer design featuring an array of superconducting islands on top of a topological insulator. MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2016