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 TechNews
Teach Your Robot to Do the Dishes
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a robot that can help people wash their dishes.
From ACM News
Teaching Machines to nderstand S
The first time Yann LeCun revolutionized artificial intelligence, it was a false dawn.
From ACM News
Welcome to the Metaverse
Ebbe Altberg needs about a paragraph to define human life: "What humans do is create spaces," the gregarious 51-year-old executive says, leaning back at a table...
From ACM News
Military Robots: Armed, But How Dangerous?
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists...
From ACM TechNews
Study Shows Co-Operative Robots Learn and Adapt Quickly Through Natural Language
Robots can learn and adjust rapidly to their surroundings solely via natural-language processing, according to a new study.
From ACM News
Crumb of Mouse Brain Reconstructed in Full Detail
Six years might seem like a long time to spend piecing together the structure of a scrap of tissue vastly smaller than a bead of sweat.
From ACM News
For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program
She is known as Xiaoice, and millions of young Chinese pick up their smartphones every day to exchange messages with her, drawn to her knowing sense of humor and...
From ACM TechNews
Researchers Enlist Machine Learning in Malware Detection
Cylance researchers are using machine learning to improve malware detection.
From ACM TechNews
Connecting Artificial Intelligence With the Internet of Things
Oblong Industries CEO John Underkoffler does not believe a connection between the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence will become a threat to mankind...
From ACM News
AI Researchers Call For Ban on Autonomous Weapons
Technologists ask the UN to outlaw weapons that operate outside of human control.
From ACM TechNews
The Next Frontier For Artificial Intelligence? Learning Human's Common Sense
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras is dubious human-like artificial intelligence is only a decade or two away.
From ACM News
Object Recognition For Robots
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...
From Communications of the ACM
Teaching Computers with Illusions
Exploring the ways human vision can be fooled is helping developers of machine vision.
From Communications of the ACM
The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
From ACM TechNews
Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots.
From ACM TechNews
The Unintended Consequences of Rationality
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences professor David C. Parkes contends rational models of economics are applicable to artificial intelligence.
From ACM News
Deep-Learning AI Is Taking Over Tech. What Is It?
Have you ever begun a Google search, only to click on the words the box lays before you?
From ACM News
The People 'possessed' By Computers
Sophia Ben-Achour looks like a typical London student. She has short, brown hair, dancing eyes and a wide smile.
From ACM News
Inside the Fake Town in Michigan Where Self-Driving Cars Are Being Tested
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.
From ACM TechNews