ACM TechNews, Wednesday, August 8, 2018
New Tool Helps Users Control Which Countries Their Internet Traffic Goes Through
Princeton University
Molly Sharlach
August 2, 2018
Princeton University researchers have developed a tool that enables users to redirect their Internet traffic to avoid passing through a particular country by diverting traffic through intermediate points.
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AI May Put Private Data at Risk
Cornell Chronicle (NY)
Melanie Lefkowitz
August 2, 2018
Cornell Tech researchers have determined current models of machine learning are vulnerable to privacy leaks and other attacks.
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It’s Harder to Turn Off a Robot When It’s Begging for Its Life
The Verge
James Vincent
August 2, 2018
Researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany have found that people are very susceptible to social cues from machines, to the point that they will refrain from shutting off a robot that begs for its life.
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The Smarter City: Las Vegas Tunes IT Operations With AIOps
Government Computer News
Sara Friedman
August 3, 2018
The City of Las Vegas is enhancing its information technology (IT) operations by applying machine learning and advanced analytics to data from its IT systems using artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps).
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Beyond 3D Printers: Additive Folding Creates Artistic Animatronics
ZDNet
Greg Nichols
August 2, 2018
Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of York in the U.K. are collaborating on the creation of soft and actuated three-dimensional (3D) objects from printable two-dimensional (2D) materials that are folded.
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Amazon Makes $525,000 Donation to Canada Learning Code
IT World Canada
Meagan Simpson
August 1, 2018
Amazon says it will donate $525,000 to Canada Learning Code to improve and develop digital literacy programs across the country.
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Roboticist at OSU Uses Performing Arts to Make Robots More Social
Corvallis Gazette-Times (OR)
Lillian Schrock
July 30, 2018
Oregon State University’s (OSU) Heather Knight, director of the Collaborative Humans and Robots: Interaction, Sociability, Machine Learning, and Art (CHARISMA) Research Laboratory, is applying performing arts principles to the creation of more socially intelligent robots.
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Research Identifies Key Weakness in Modern Computer Vision Systems
Brown University
Kevin Stacey
July 30, 2018
Brown University researchers have demonstrated a flaw in modern computer vision algorithms that makes them consistently poor at differentiating between two objects in an image.
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Five Questions With Will Sentance
The New York Times
Olivier De Meulder
August 2, 2018
In an interview, Codesmith’s Will Sentance discussed how he started the organization and why JavaScript is a useful programming language.
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A New Complex Network-Based Approach to Topic Modeling
Tech Xplore
Ingrid Fadelli
July 30, 2018
Researchers at the University of Bath in the U.K., the University of Sydney in Australia, and Northwestern University have developed a novel network approach to topic models, machine learning strategies that can find abstract topics and semantic structures within text documents.
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On-Chip Optical Filter Processes Wide Range of Light Wavelengths
MIT News
Rob Matheson
August 1, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed an optical filter on a chip that can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light at once, which could offer greater precision and flexibility for designing optical communication and sensor systems
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‘Blurred Face’ News Anonymity Gets an AI Spin
Simon Fraser University
August 1, 2018
Researchers at Canada’s Simon Fraser University (SFU) School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) have developed a method of employing artificial intelligence (AI) to better obscure the faces of anonymous individuals in news reports.
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