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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.
Professional player Song Byung-gu won a recent "StarCraft" tournament in South Korea, beating four artificial intelligence programs in less than 30 minutes.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2017
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 1, 2017
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2017
Stanford University professor Andrew Ng is supporting the development of a Facebook chatbot to offer interactive cognitive behavior therapy to people suffering...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2017
DeepMind's upgrade to the AlphaGo algorithm, AlphaGo Zero, beat its predecessor in a 100-game Go match, acquiring skills by playing millions of games against itself...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2017
Artificial intelligence researchers and companies are applying machine learning to automate the more complicated aspects of AI algorithm development.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2017
Researchers used an intelligence test they developed to rank intelligent assistants such as Google Assistant and Siri on the same scale used for humans.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 18, 2017
Researchers have built a brain-to-tweet interface that predicts the song a finch is going to sing a fraction of a second before it does so.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2017
Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab director Fei-Fei Li advocates for more human-centered AI and the benefits it can yield.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2017
Researchers say they have outlined a way to achieve quantum supremacy, demonstrating a proof-of-principle version of a quantum computer.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 10, 2017
Two researchers say they have built a proof-of-principle algorithm that destroys itself after use.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2017
Apple says the inclusion of its Face ID technology in the upcoming iPhone X will make smartphone unlocking, payment, and other operations possible via facial recognition...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2017
Creating noodling piano tunes and endless configurations of cat drawings with AI may not sound like an obvious project for Google, but it makes a lot of sense to...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 13, 2017
Researchers warn some artificial intelligence programs are inheriting biases against certain dialects, which could lead to automatic discrimination as language-based...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2017
Researchers say they have proof that social bots are the key to the online proliferation of fake news.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 16, 2017
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
Technology Review From ACM News | August 10, 2017
Researchers have developed a deep-learning textual sentiment algorithm which can analyze tweets to pick up sarcasm and general emotional subtext.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 9, 2017
Researchers at Salesforce have developed a method that could improve the performance of modern language programs.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 1, 2017
The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, MIT Technology...Technology Review From ACM News | July 28, 2017