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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.
Researchers found that factors such as excessive bickering and poorly worded arguments led to about a third of Requests for Comment by Wikipedia editors going unresolved...MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2018
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into...MIT News Office From ACM News | November 7, 2018
A new system uses reflected wireless signals to identify occupants within a home, even when they are not carrying mobile devices.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2018
A new "in-body global-positioning system" can locate ingestible implants within the body using low-power wireless signals.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 23, 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
Researchers have embedded high-speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices within fibers woven into soft, washable fabrics, and converted them into communication...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 14, 2018
A new optical filter on a chip can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light simultaneously.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 8, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed cell-sized robots that can sense their environment, store data, and conduct computational tasks...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 31, 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
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
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
A new chip performs public-key encryption while consuming only 1/400 as much power as software execution of the same protocols would.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 14, 2018
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2017