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.
From ACM TechNews
Hevc Video Standard Finished; High-End Improvements Coming
The Moving Picture Experts Group has developed the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC). The video-compression technology will enable higher-quality video, and also...
From ACM Opinion
Ito: Think Twice About Immortality and the Singularity
Ray Kurzweil's vision of the "singularity"—when nanobots make humans immortal and computer progress is so fast that the future becomes profoundly unknowable—is...
From ACM Opinion
Samsung's Secret Weapon in the Mobile Wars: Tizen
You've probably never heard of Tizen, but the companies behind it are some of the most recognizable brands in the tech industry.
From ACM Opinion
Google's Kurzweil on Teaching Human Language to Computers
Famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil joined Google last month to work on "some of the hardest problems in computer science," specifically machine learning and...
From ACM News
How Google Is Taking the Knowledge Graph Global
Earlier this month, Google shared a fascinating statistic. The number of items in the company's Knowledge Graph—its database of people, places, and things, and...
From ACM News
Nvidia Still Has a Lot to Prove in the Mobile Market
Nvidia may be flying high on its tablet wins, but it still has a long way to go before it can call itself a real mobile player.
From ACM Opinion
Otellini's Legacy of Intel Profit Marred By Arm Competition
When Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini retires in May, he'll leave a mixed record.
From ACM News
Obama's Win a Big Vindication for Nate Silver, King of the Quants
In the end, big data won.
From ACM News
.s. Looks to Replace Human Surveillance with Computers
Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras.
From ACM News
Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's Controversial Mr. Windows 8
Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was working on a file synchronization technology that would make stashing and grabbing pictures, documents...
From ACM Careers
Ftc Offers $50,000 to Robocall Killers
The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.
From ACM News
Inside Google's Sci-Fi Search Experiments
The familiar whistle of a smartphone notification told me that Paco was hungry.
From ACM TechNews
Moore's Law: The Rule That Really Matters in Tech
Moore's Law has sustained its momentum despite worries of it hitting its physical limits, thanks to materials scientists' progress in getting more computing power...
From ACM News
How the Pros Thwart Computer Spies with James Bond Tricks
H.D. Moore wasn't taking chances.
From ACM News
A Who's Who of Mideast-Targeted Malware
What do Stuxnet, Duqu, Gauss, Mahdi, Flame, Wiper, and Shamoon have in common?
From ACM News
Inside Huawei, the Chinese Tech Giant That's Rattling Nerves in D.c.
Chen Lifang is a bit flummoxed.
From ACM Opinion
Apple-Samsung Jury Foreman Recalls 'aha! Moment'
According to Velvin Hogan, the 67-year-old foreman of the jury in the U.S. trial between the Apple and Samsung, one of the turning points in group's journey to came...
From ACM News
Slow, But Rugged, Curiosity's Computer Was Built For Mars
The electronic brain controlling NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has far less horsepower than the microchips typically found in a modern smart phone.
From ACM News
At Getty Museum, Revelations of Art via Tech
Walking through gallery after gallery of classical European paintings, sculptures, and other antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum here, it's easy to get lost...
From ACM Opinion