Week Ending 8.8.2021
RESEARCH WATCH: 8.8.2021
This week was active for "Computer Science", with 1,102 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Delft University of Technology: "Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in Cluttered Environments" by Bardienus P. Duisterhof et al (Jul 2021), which was referenced 19 times, including in the article Want to Pinpoint Gas Leaks? Fly Surveillance With Tiny Drones in Design News. The paper author, Guido de Croon (Delft University of Technology), was quoted saying "We are convinced that swarms of tiny drones are a promising avenue for autonomous gas source localization".
Leading researcher Luc Van Gool (Computer Vision Laboratory) came out with "Boosting Few-shot Semantic Segmentation with Transformers".
This week was very active for "Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence", with 161 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Carnegie Mellon University: "Learning by Watching" by Jimuyang Zhang et al (Jun 2021), which was referenced 9 times, including in the article ‘Watch And Learn’ Approach For Autonomous Vehicles in EFY.
Leading researcher E. A. Huerta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) published "A FAIR and AI-ready Higgs Boson Decay Dataset".
This week was active for "Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition", with 287 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Carnegie Mellon University: "Learning by Watching" by Jimuyang Zhang et al (Jun 2021)
Leading researcher Luc Van Gool (Computer Vision Laboratory) published "Boosting Few-shot Semantic Segmentation with Transformers".
Over the past week, 26 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Computers and Society".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at University of Toulouse: "Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals" by Guillaume Cabanac et al (Jul 2021), which was referenced 9 times, including in the article Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Artificial translation in British Medical Journal.
This week was very active for "Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction", with 45 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Georgetown University: "Examining the Examiners: Students Privacy and Security Perceptions of Online Proctoring Services" by David G. Balash et al (Jun 2021), which was referenced 6 times, including in the article Research explores privacy and security perceptions of online education proctoring services in Mirage News. The paper author, David Balash, was quoted saying "Institutional support for third-party proctoring software conveys credibility and makes the exam proctoring software appear safer and less potentially problematic because students assume that institutions have done proper vetting of both the software and the methods employed by the proctoring services".
This week was very active for "Computer Science - Learning", with 318 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at OpenAI: "Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code" by Mark Chen et al (Jul 2021), which was referenced 15 times, including in the article GitHub Copilot And The Unfulfilled Promises Of An Artificial Intelligence Future in Tech-Chat.co.za.
Over the past week, 18 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Multiagent Systems".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at DeepMind: "Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents" by Open Ended Learning Team et al (Jul 2021), which was referenced 4 times, including in the article DeepMind Trains AI Agents To Play Games Without Human Interaction Data in Analytics India Magazine.
Over the past week, 20 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Generating Master Faces for Dictionary Attacks with a Network-Assisted Latent Space Evolution" by Ron Shmelkin et al (Aug 2021), which was referenced 7 times, including in the article 'Master Face': Researchers Say They've Found a Wildly Successful Bypass for Face Recognition Tech in Gizmodo.
This week was very active for "Computer Science - Robotics", with 105 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Delft University of Technology: "Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in Cluttered Environments" by Bardienus P. Duisterhof et al (Jul 2021)