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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Finland has launched an ambitious challenge to teach the basics of artificial intelligence to 1% of its population.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 16, 2019
In the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, American military planners began to worry about the threat to US warplanes posed by new, radar-guided missile defenses...Technology Review From ACM News | January 3, 2019
Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence system to convert ordinary monaural sounds into nearly three-dimensional sounds.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 3, 2019
New software can animate the central character in a photograph while leaving the rest of the image untouched.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 26, 2018
These faces don't seem particularly remarkable. They could easily be taken from, say, Facebook or LinkedIn. In reality, they were dreamed up by a new kind of AI...Technology Review From ACM News | December 21, 2018
In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...Technology Review From ACM News | December 20, 2018
A new design for neural networks lacks traditional stacked layers of simple computational nodes that work together to find patterns in data.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 14, 2018
Canada and France recently announced plans for an international panel to assess the dangers of artificial intelligence and formulate appropriate policies.
MIT Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 13, 2018
Researchers in the U.K. have developed an algorithm that can predict "pump-and-dump" cryptocurrency scams prior to their occurrence.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2018
Researchers have constructed the world's first single-layer neural network, known as a perceptron, and induced it to perform simple image processing tasks.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 27, 2018
Harvard Kennedy School's Dipayan Ghosh and former U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler have launched a new AI policy initiative aimed at educating U.S. politicians and...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2018
Startup Kebotix has created software that learns material chemistry from models of molecules with known properties in order to design novel compounds.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 12, 2018
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
Technology Review From ACM News | November 8, 2018
A new software bot can find bugs in code and write patches with effectiveness comparable to that of human developers.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2018
Researchers have found that machine vision systems cannot process optical illusions in the same way humans can.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2018
University of Washington in Seattle researchers have developed a brain-to-brain network that transmits thoughts among members of a group.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 3, 2018
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