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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.
Researchers have developed self-assembling robotic cubes that can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, and roll across the ground.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 7, 2019
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
A new system helps networks of smart devices find their positions in environments where GPS usually fails.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2019
A new method utilizes standard three-dimensional printers to produce functioning devices with electronics already embedded within them.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 18, 2019
Scientists have upgraded a fleet of autonomous boats to autonomously disconnect and reassemble into different forms of floating platforms, in the canals of Amsterdam...MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 6, 2019
Researchers in Australia used data from the accelerometers in mobile phones to predict users' personalities.
RMIT News From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2019
Researchers have developed an automated system that can design and print in three dimensions complex robotic parts optimized to a large number of specifications...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2019
A new algorithm accurately aligns partial trajectories in real time, allowing motion predictors in self-driving cars to accurately anticipate the timing of a person's...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2019
A new robotic system uses machines to help people lift objects by monitoring their muscle movements, producing a smoother robot-human collaboration.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 30, 2019
A new system could enable autonomous vehicles to navigate complex environments by checking a basic global positioning system-like map and employing video feeds....MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 29, 2019
A new technique can derive fully comprehensive samples, or "sketches," of vast cellular datasets, to simplify analysis.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 9, 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
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a fireside chat, featuring six of its professors who have received ACM's A.M. Turing Award.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 7, 2019
Researchers are employing radio-frequency identification tags to help track moving objects with unprecedented accuracy and speed.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 21, 2019
Researchers have developed a method of identifying individual nodes in neural networks that capture specific linguistic features.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 4, 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
Researchers have developed a tool for nonstatisticians that automatically generates models for analyzing raw data. The tool takes in datasets and generates sophisticated...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 18, 2019