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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.
A study by researchers at Canada's University of British Columbia found that a period of gradual transition will be necessary for road users to feel comfortable...UBC News (Canada) From ACM TechNews | September 7, 2023
Scientists in South Korea compared a custom robotic system developed for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) coil placement to traditional manual methods in...News-Medical.net From ACM TechNews | September 7, 2023
A new device combines ultra-thin two-dimensional semiconductors and ferroelectric materials, with the goal of integrating digital logic and brain-inspired analog...EPFL News (Switzerland) From ACM TechNews | September 6, 2023
Researchers developed a graph neural network that reliably matched human volunteers' identification of 55 odors, then predicted the smells of 500,000 additional...Science From ACM TechNews | September 6, 2023
In the AI era, publishers are more aggressively blocking crawlers because there's no upside, for now, in handing over their data to AI companies.
Axios From ACM News | August 31, 2023
The new HoloBoard system can be paired with Microsoft's HoloLens 2 augmented reality device to help non-speaking autistic individuals improve their motor skills...University of Calgary (Canada) From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2023
Despite receiving recent approval to expand their robotaxi services in San Francisco, Waymo and Cruise continue to face backlash over traffic and safety concerns...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2023
Exploring ways to supplement conventional computer vision data with metadata collected from physics-based sensors and systems.
Samuel Greengard From ACM News | August 31, 2023
A growing number of scientific researchers are using virtual reality (VR) technology in the lab, often to more easily collaborate with distant colleagues, or simply...Nature From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2023
Researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo have developed drones that can assemble and dissemble in mid-air.
Popular Science From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2023
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has developed a variable selection algorithm for chemometrics applications....Chinese Academy of Sciences From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2023
A new framework allows quadruped robots to perform tasks that get progressively more complex without having to relearn motions.
Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2023
Researchers hope to enable scientists and processor designers to understand the underlying reasoning of deep learning accelerator designs through explainable-design...ASU News From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2023
Researchers found that off-the-shelf artificial intelligence (AI) models can detect the early signs of a tsunami in two-dimensional (2D) images from GPS satellites...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) operates the U.S. Air Force's pilotless XQ-58A Valkyrie experimental aircraft, which the military envisions as a next-generation robot...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2023
A team of researchers has developed a light-based machine learning system that could surpass the system behind ChatGPT in terms of power and efficiency, while also...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 25, 2023
The Telomere-to-Telomere consortium has completed sequencing the human genome by adding the fully mapped Y chromosome.
ScienceAlert From ACM TechNews | August 25, 2023
Since the beginning of August, 10 telescopes in Hawaii and Chile run by the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab coordinating center for ground-based astronomy...Science From ACM TechNews | August 25, 2023