Theory/Design

David Silver recognized for breakthrough advances in computer game-playingCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that David Silver is the recipient of the 2019 ACM…

Two engineering professors receive prestigious IEEE Computer Society award Recognized for contributions that have significantly promoted technical progress in their fields, UC Santa Barbara professors B.S. Manjunath and Yuan Xie have been…

New paradigm for "auto-tuning" quantum bits could overcome major engineering hurdle.Credit: B. Hayes / NIST A high-end race car engine needs all its components tuned and working together precisely to deliver top-quality…

Credit: Ola Joensen Entanglement, a powerful form of correlation among quantum systems, is an important resource for quantum computing. Researchers from the Quantum Optomechanics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of…

Study knocks down some theories for the origin of a mysterious light signature that has puzzled physicists for yearsCredit: Zosia Rostomian and Nicholas Rodd/Berkeley Lab; and Christopher Dessert and Benjamin Safdi/University of Michigan …

First issue looks at incident response and security teamsCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced the launch of Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP), a new…

What is interaction and when does it occur? Intuition suggests that the necessary condition for the interaction of independently created particles is their direct touch or contact through physical force carriers. In quantum mechanics,…

Using a photorealistic simulation engine, vehicles learn to drive in the real world and recover from near-crash scenarios A simulation system invented at MIT to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering…

Credit: SU Xiaoquan Big data makes big promises when it comes to providing insights into human behavior and health. The problem is how to harness the information it provides in an efficient manner. An international team of researchers has…

Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering is the idea that adding a layer of aerosol particles to the upper atmosphere can reduce climate changes caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Previous research shows that solar…

Hanrahan and Catmull's innovations paved the way for today's 3-D animated filmsCredit: Catmull photo credit: Deborah Coleman/Pixar Hanrahan photo credit: Andrew Brodhead/Stanford University ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery,…

Researchers demonstrated the mathematical impossibility of representing social networks and other complex networks using popular methods of 'low-dimensional embeddings' Models and algorithms for analyzing complex networks are widely used…

Bosonic symmetry ensures hardware-efficient encoding of informationCredit: Stephanie Zingsheim/University of Sydney Scientists in Australia have developed a new approach to reducing the errors that plague experimental quantum computers; a…

A world-first study, led by Australia's Monash University, has patented a new filtration technique that could slash lithium extraction times. The research team has developed a synthetic MOF-based membrane that can filter lithium ions in…

Researchers use machine learning to augment detection of methane leaks Though not as prevalent in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas. Occurring naturally as well as being manmade, methane is much…

Researchers at Osaka Univ. fabricate an energy efficient reconfigurable computing engine that can be rewired to optimize its performance for artificial intelligence tasks. This work may lead to inexpensive and eco-friendly custom machine…

New publication chronicles one of the most transformative developments of the 21st centuryCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today published the inaugural issue of ACM Transactions on…

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A coronavirus app coupled with machine intelligence will soon enable an individual to get an at-home risk assessment based on how they feel and where they've been in about a…

Dean's Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Information Sciences Institute Fellow has been awarded the Harry H. Goode Memorial AwardCredit: Courtesy of USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dr. Carl Kesselman, pioneer of grid…

In place of flat 'breadboards,' 3D-printed CurveBoards enable easier testing of circuit design on electronics products.Credit: Image: Dishita Turakhia and Junyi Zhu MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate "breadboards" -- flat…