Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Four Important Things to Expect in Virtual Reality in 2016
Significant virtual reality milestones are expected this year.
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Four Important Things to Expect in Virtual Reality in 2016
Virtual reality has grown immensely over the past few years, but 2016 looks like the most important year yet: it will be the first time that consumers can get their...
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How Twitter Bots Turn Tweeters Into Activists
A recent Microsoft study details the use of Twitter bots to engage Twitter users with political activism.
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A Master Algorithm Lets Robots Teach Themselves to Perform Complex Tasks
For all the talk of machines becoming intelligent, getting a sophisticated robot to do anything complex, like grabbing a heavy object and moving it from one place...
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Baidu's Self-Driving Car Takes On Beijing Traffic
Driving around Beijing often feels unnervingly like a contact sport, with vehicles recklessly plunging through thick traffic, sneaking along the shoulder, or cutting...
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Here's What Developers Are Doing with Google’s AI Brain
An artificial intelligence engine that Google uses in many of its products, and that it made freely available last month, is now being used by others to perform...
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China Wants to Replace Millions of Workers with Robots
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.
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A Smarter Kind of Crash Test Dummy
Car crash simulations are being run on a supercomputer using a combination of actual vehicle, scene, and medical data by Wake Forest University researchers.
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When Your Boss Is an ber Algorithm
Researchers say Uber and Lyft's automated management systems establish new dynamics between workers and their bosses that should garner regulatory attention.
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Patients Favor Changing the Genes of the Next Generation with Crispr
Jeff Carroll inherited the DNA mutation that causes Huntington's disease.
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Telepresence Robot For the Disabled Takes Directions from Brain Signals
Italian and Swiss researchers have created an experimental telepresence robot that can be operated by disabled people via brain signals.
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Everything You Need to Know About Crispr Gene Editing's Monster Year
Muscle-bound beagles. Hornless cows. Better potatoes. Genetically modified human embryos.
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AI Advances Make It Possible to Search, Shop With Images
The improvement of image-recognition software via deep learning could help usher in an era of image-based Web shopping/browsing.
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Machine Vision Algorithm Learns to Recognize Hidden Facial Expressions
A new machine-vision algorithm can detect and identify microexpressions better than humans can.
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35 Innovators nder 35 2015
The selection process for this package begins with hundreds of nominations from the public, MIT Technology Review editors, and our international partners.
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Track Your Heart With Your Phone, Even If Your Phone's in Your Bag
The BioPhone project will derive a person's heart and breathing rates from a smartphone's accelerometer.
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Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...
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Robot Toddler Learns to Stand By "imagining" How to Do It
The ability of robots to carry out tasks and move about their environment is increasingly impressive, but they still face major challenges.
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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.
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