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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.
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...Technology Review From ACM News | December 28, 2015
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...Technology Review From ACM News | December 21, 2015
Driving around Beijing often feels unnervingly like a contact sport, with vehicles recklessly plunging through thick traffic, sneaking along the shoulder, or cutting...Technology Review From ACM News | December 10, 2015
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...Technology Review From ACM News | December 9, 2015
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.Technology Review From ACM News | December 8, 2015
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...Technology Review From ACM News | November 13, 2015
In a move that makes it possible to seamlessly combine your love of emojis with adorable animal videos, a group of researchers has built a prototype of a search...Technology Review From ACM News | October 30, 2015
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...Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2015
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man's spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant...Technology Review From ACM News | October 22, 2015
The behavior and interplay of two types of neurons in the brain helps give humans and other animals an uncanny ability to navigate by building a mental map of their...Technology Review From ACM News | October 20, 2015
In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
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...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
Augmented or mixed reality, which renders virtual images in a view of the real world, can be spectacular to experience. But it may be even more fun when you bring...Technology Review From ACM News | October 13, 2015
When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, he's not talking about someone who arranges his record collection...Technology Review From ACM News | October 9, 2015
It can take weeks to reprogram an industrial robot to perform a complicated new task, which makes retooling a modern manufacturing line painfully expensive and...Technology Review From ACM News | October 5, 2015
When NASA scientists announced that instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sensed signs of liquid water seeping on the Martian surface, they meant a solution...Technology Review From ACM News | October 2, 2015