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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.
China might be at loggerheads with the United States over trade, but it is calling for a friendlier approach to the development of artificial intelligence.
Technology Review From ACM News | September 28, 2018
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has created a box that, when placed in a user's home, can track his/her physiological signals, even through walls...MIT Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 18, 2018
Google says the cooling systems of several of its data centers are now governed by an artificial intelligence algorithm.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2018
Fusion is a robotic project to explore how people may be able to work together to control, or augment, a person's body.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2018
AI researchers have demonstrated a self-teaching algorithm that gives a robot hand remarkable new dexterity.
Technology Review From ACM News | August 1, 2018
Many experimental robots that live in research laboratories around the world may be wide open to hackers.
Technology Review From ACM News | July 25, 2018
Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech or describe images with near-perfect accuracy (see "10...Technology Review From ACM News | June 12, 2018
Researchers say having two artificial intelligence systems debate a particular goal could ensure that they behave reliably when executing complex functions.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 15, 2018
Researchers have developed a scavenger hunt that could help artificial intelligence programs develop common sense.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 14, 2018
Artificial-intelligence programs could develop some much-needed common sense by competing in scavenger hunts inside virtual homes filled with simulated coffee tables...Technology Review From ACM News | May 3, 2018
When Amit Khera explains how he predicts disease, the young cardiologist's hands touch the air, arranging imaginary columns of people: 30,000 who have suffered...Technology Review From ACM News | February 26, 2018
Inside a small laboratory in lush countryside about 50 miles north of New York City, an elaborate tangle of tubes and electronics dangles from the ceiling. This...Technology Review From ACM News | February 23, 2018
Scientists are investigating silicon as a key ingredient in the creation of scalable quantum computers.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 16, 2018
After atmospheric scientist Ivana Cvijanovic began pushing a computerized climate simulation to its limits, she noticed a disturbing result: as Arctic sea ice nearly...Technology Review From ACM News | February 9, 2018
An experiment by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China used quantum computers to calculate Betti numbers. The work "suggests that data...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2018
In an office at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a computer chip is crunching data from a nearby camera, looking for faces stored in a database.
Technology Review From ACM News | February 2, 2018
You've seen the headlines: "Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs—and We're Not Ready for It." "You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think." "Robots May...Technology Review From ACM Careers | January 31, 2018