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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Data Mining Reveals How Smiling Evolved During a Century of Yearbook Photos
A new machine-vision strategy for data-mining a massive database of high school yearbook photos has been pioneered at the University of California, Berkeley.
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The Machine-Vision Algorithm For Analyzing Children's Drawings
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a machine-vision algorithm that can objectively analyze children's drawings. ...
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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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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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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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Google Tries to Make Machine Learning a Little More Human
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says advances in machine learning would soon affect every product and service the company provides.
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Google Aims to Make Vr Hardware Irrelevant Before It Even Gets Going
Google and Facebook are pushing virtual-reality technology along two different lines.
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Data Mining Reveals the Extent of China's Ghost Cities
China has experienced a tremendous amount of urban growth in the last 30 years, yet many of the newly built residential areas remain vacant.
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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
The fact that automated cars can never be perfectly safe raises ethical issues, such as how they should be programmed to act in the event of an unavoidable collision...
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How Your Device Knows Your Life Through Images
Researchers have designed an artificial neural network to identify scenes in photographs taken by people using wearable cameras or mobile phones.
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Drivers Push Tesla's Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities
Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use of an automated driving system, called Autopilot, in its Model S all-electric...
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You've Been Misled About What Makes a Good Password
Symantec researchers recently found requiring numbers and uppercase characters in passwords does not do much to make them stronger.
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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
When it comes to automotive technology, self-driving cars are all the rage.
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Wi-Fi Trick Gives Devices Super-Accurate Indoor Location Fixes
New technology promises to offer more accurate indoor location technology based on Wi-Fi.
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An Algorithm Helps Robots Fall Safely
At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar robots struggled to perform even simple tasks like climbing a flight of stairs; someimpeccable...
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Robot See, Robot Do: How Robots Can Learn New Tasks By Observing
The University of Maryland's Autonomy, Robotics, and Cognition Lab is developing robots that can learn how to do a new job by watching others do it first.
From ACM Opinion
Fighting Isis Online
The two men pecked out messages on opposite sides of the country.
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Moon-Landing Equivalent For Robotics: Assembling an Ikea Chair
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are developing a robot that will be able to assemble an IKEA chair.
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Facebook's Cyborg Virtual Assistant Is Learning From Its Trainers
Several hundred users of Facebook's mobile messaging app late last month were given access to M, the social network's new artificial intelligence-based virtual...
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