Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Quantum Computing Could Head to 'the Cloud,' Study Says
A novel high-speed, high-security computing technology will be compatible with the "cloud computing" approach popular on the Web, a study suggests.
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Self-Healing Electronic Chip Tests May Aid Space Travel
Self-repairing electronic chips are one step closer, according to a team of U.S. researchers, creating a circuit that heals itself when cracked thanks to the...
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Scientists Break World Record For Data-Transfer Speeds
Researchers are claiming a new world record for data transfers over long distances.
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Intel Shows Off Its Knights Corner One Teraflops Chip
Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second.
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How to Predict the Future
Imagining the future, we naturally think of it as a different place to the one we live in now. It is populated with new technologies, advanced science, and perhaps...
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Future Computers Could Rewire Themselves
Future microchips may have only one type of component, capable of rewiring itself to do different jobs. Researchers from Northwestern University in the U.S. have...
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IBM Bets on Data-Centric Computing
Jai Menon, chief technology officer and vice-president for technical strategy for IBM's Systems and Technology Group, holds 52 patents and is arguably most famous...
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Ready For the Robot Revolution?
Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...
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Nature's Hidden Prime Number Code
Ever since humans evolved on this planet we have been trying to make sense of the world around us. We have attempted to explain why the world looks and behaves...
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How Engineers Create Artificial Sounds to Fool S
Hundreds of items have their acoustics deliberately tweaked to make us happy, according to Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at the University of...
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'Talking' Cars Could Reduce Motorway Pile-ps
Scientists from the University of Bologna in Italy have developed software that lets cars "communicate" with one another on the road.
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Graphene Technology Moves Closer
Graphene is a "wonder material" waiting to happen. Since this super-conductive form of carbon, made from single-atom-thick sheets, was first produced in 2004,...
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Code-Cracking Machine Returned to Life
The National Museum of Computing has finished restoring a Tunny machine—a key part of Allied code-cracking during World War II.
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Is Graphene a Miracle Material?
The material graphene was touted as "the next big thing" even before its pioneers were handed the Nobel Prize last year. Many believe it could spell the end for...
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Memristors' Current Carves Protected Channels
A circuit component touted as the "missing link" of electronics is starting to give up the secrets of how it works.
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The Man Who Invented the Microprocessor
Ted Hoff saved his own life, sort of. Deep inside this 73-year-old lies a microprocessor—a tiny computer that controls his pacemaker and, in turn, his heart.
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Google Goes Shopping For Patents
Google has made a $900m bid for the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks, the bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker. The patents could help arm it against...
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Gravity Satellite Yields 'potato Earth' View
It looks like a giant potato in space. And yet, the information in this model is the sharpest view we have of how gravity varies across the Earth.
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Spiders and Crabs Inspire Robot Locomotion
The walking patterns of crabs, lobsters and spiders are helping to inspire new ways of getting robots to move around.
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