Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM News
Babies Treat 'social Robots' as Sentient Beings
University of Washington researchers report that babies who watched a robot interact socially with people were more willing to learn from the robot than babies...
From ACM News
Robot Arm Punches Human to Obey Asimov's Rules
Isaac Asimov would probably have been horrified at the experiments under way in a robotics lab in Slovenia. There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over...
From ACM News
Eerie Female Robot Learns to 'sing' By Copying Human Singer
The life-sized humanoid robot known as HRP-4 has been taught to sing using synthesized voice technology. The robot is also able to mimic the expressions of a human...
From ACM News
Hey Robots, Census Wants to Know All About You
The Carnegie Mellon Robot Census 2010 has so far tallied 547 robots on the CMU campus.
From ACM News
Robotic Aircraft & Ground Vehicle to Collaborate at Robotics Rodeo
Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute are poised to show the U.S. Army an advanced approach to enabling autonomous collaboration among dissimilar robotic...
From ACM News
Robots Guarding U.S. Nuclear Stockpile
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration recently announced that it has started using autonomous robot vehicles to patrol the vast desert surrounding...
From ACM News
Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on...
From ACM News
Artificial Intelligence: Helping Man Explore the Cosmos
Man's first 50 years of spaceflight may have been fuelled by human ingenuity but it is artificial intelligence that will play an increasingly important role in...
From ACM TechNews
Intel Labs Creating Robots of the Future
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and scientists from the Intel Labs site on the CMU campus recently held an open house to show off their projects, including...
From ACM News
Aiming to Learn As We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself
Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined—win at chess, predict the weather—and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are nuanced...
From ACM TechNews
Flying Robot Swarm Takes Off
The Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne is experimenting with flying robots that would create a communications network for rescuers in disaster areas. Researchers...
From ACM TechNews
Five Federal Agencies Want Big Robot Technology Advances
Five U.S. agencies recently announced plans to fund innovative research and development of robotic technologies with the goal of enriching human lives. DARPA seeks...
From Communications of the ACM
Linear Logic
A novel approach to computational logic is reaching maturity, opening up opening up new vistas in programming languages, proof nets, and security applications.
From ACM TechNews
Technology to Improve Safety in the 'danger Zone'
University of Southampton professor Nick Jennings says the ALADDIN project is developing "autonomous agents which will make decisions on their own without direct...
From ACM TechNews
Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream
Murdoch University professor Graham Mann told the recent World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia, that intelligent systems should have emotions built into...
From ACM TechNews
Vigilant Camera Eye
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology have developed an automated camera system that replicates some functions of the human...
From ACM TechNews
ga Researchers Apply Artificial Intelligence to the Study of Gothic Cathedrals
University of Georgia professors are using artificial intelligence to study gothic cathedrals with the aim of developing an ontology that will make it possible...
From ACM TechNews
Scientists Work Together to Move Robotics Forward
Arizona State University researchers are developing next-generation robotic devices with greater intelligence and autonomy.
From ACM News
PRoViScout: ESA and NASA Develop an Independent Mars Exploration System
Researchers from across Europe—with a little help from experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory—are working on a new, robotic exploration system that could...
From ACM News