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5-May-2025

Privacy-aware building automation

University of Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a framework to enable decentralized artificial intelligence-based building automation with a focus on privacy. The system enables AI-powered devices like cameras and interfaces to cooperate directly, using a new form of device-to-device communication. In doing so, it eliminates the need for central servers and thus the need for centralized data retention, often seen as a potential security weak point and risk to private data.

Funder: This research was conducted as a part of Green University of Tokyo Project consortium

5-May-2025

Vertical Farming to increase yields and reduce environmental impact

Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Vertical farming can do more than lettuce. A research team headed by TUMCREATE, a research platform in Singapore, led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has investigated the cultivation of six food groups in vertical farming: Crops, algae, mushrooms, insects, fish and cultivated meat. In this study, the researchers show the positive effects of vertical farming on both yield and environmental impact and underline its role in future food security.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

5-May-2025

Properties of the drip‑line nucleus and mass relation of mirror nuclei

Nuclear Science and Techniques
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Guangxi Normal University observed a new equilibrium mechanism between Coulomb energy and symmetry energy and deformation energy arising in heavy nuclei at the neutron drip line. They proposed a new reference to verify the undetermined neutron magic number based on the nuclei at neutron drip line. They also provided a set of Coulomb energy coefficients with greater accuracy.

Journal: Nuclear Science and Techniques

5-May-2025

Cancer studies present at Digestive Disease Week

Digestive Disease Week
Reports and Proceedings

Reporters note: The following briefs highlight selected cancer-related studies being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2025 in San Diego. You are welcome to use these items as-is, incorporate them into broader coverage, or use them as story starters for your own reporting. Reach out to Tware@thereisgroup.com to get more information or to connect with researchers for interviews.

Embargo: Each brief is embargoed until 12:01 a.m. PDT the day of its presentation, as listed at the end of each item. Alternatively, the entire package may be published after 12:01 a.m. PDT on May 5, 2025.

Meeting: Digestive Disease Week

5-May-2025

Making virtual reality more accessible

University of Waterloo
Reports and Proceedings

A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo have created a method that makes virtual reality (VR) more accessible to people with mobility limitations.

Meeting: CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

2-May-2025

ACM honors those who shape technology's future

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced the recipients of three prestigious technical awards. This year’s awardees are recognized for groundbreaking innovations to autonomous systems, cryptography, and software for parallel computers. ACM will present these and other awards at its annual awards banquet on June 14 in San Francisco.

2-May-2025

NCSA director Bill Gropp honored with prestigious ACM award

National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Grant and Award Announcement

The Association for Computing Machinery recognized NCSA Director Bill Gropp for his work on MPICH, a high-performance and portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface.