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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U.S. IT Jobs Grow in January, Defying Broader Employment Struggles
Information technology (IT) employment consultancy Janco Associates estimates seasonally adjusted U.S. IT job growth in January was 18,200.
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Iowa Caucus Chaos Likely to Set Back Mobile Voting
The failure of a vote-recording app used in the Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus may set back online voting.
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Security Researchers Warn of Online Voting Risks
Security researchers warned Australia should not rely on any online voting system that lacks a thorough ballot-verification method, to ensure against fraudulent...
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Apple's 'Everyone Can Code' Courses Now Available in Braille
Apple has partnered with the Royal National Institute of Blind People in the U.K. to expand its Everyone Can Code curriculum to visually impaired students.
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Quantum Open Source Fund Launched
The newly-launched Unitary Fund is offering grants of $2,000 to projects developing open source quantum software for near-term, hybrid quantum-classical programming...
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Could These Grain-Sized Computers sing Blockchain Networks Thwart Counterfeiters?
IBM researchers have developed granular microcomputers that could work with a blockchain electronic ledger to verify and track any product.
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Cpu Architecture After Moore's Law: What's Next?
Views differ on how central-processing unit architecture will proceed as Moore's Law becomes increasingly irrelevant.
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Vint Cerf on His 'love Affair' with Tech and What’s Coming Next
The father of the Internet looks back at the last 50 years, and ahead to what faces IT.
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Coders and Librarians Team p to Save Scientific Data
Software programmers, librarians, and others are archiving scientific data from government websites.
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Disney Research Demonstrates Open-Air Wireless Charging
Disney Research says its new quasistatic cavity resonance technology offers a way for mobile devices to wirelessly charge themselves.
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Here's Why Self-Driving Cars May Never Really Be Self-Driving
Researchers are exploring unpredictable issues with autonomous car technology that might be solved with embedded software to avoid accidents.
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Columbus, Ohio, Region Boosts Smart Mobility Research
The Columbus, OH, region is funding smart mobility and driverless vehicle research.
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ts to Launch Programming Environment For the Quantum Era
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia say they will soon unveil a quantum-era programming environment at the UTS Center for Quantum Software...
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After First Week, AI System Is Beating Human Poker Players
An artificial intelligence system called Libratus has gained the upper hand against human poker players in the first week of a 20-day tournament in Pittsburgh. ...
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Nram Set to Spark a 'holy War' Among Memory Technologies
A non-volatile memory technology based on carbon nanotubes could be more disruptive to enterprise storage, servers, and consumer electronics than flash memory when...
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DARPA Wants to Create Secure Data-Sharing Tech
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching the Secure Handhelds on Assured Resilient networks at the tactical Edge project.
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Man vs. AI Machine in Texas Hold'em Matchup
Four top professional poker players will challenge an artificial intelligence system in a 20-day Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament billed as an "epic...
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Obama White House's Final Tech Recommendation: Invest in AI
The White House has recommended continued investment in artificial intelligence research and development to shore up the U.S. economy and help the country "stay...
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China's Policing Robot: Cattle Prod Meets Supercomputer
Chinese researchers have developed an "intelligent security robot" and deployed it in a Shenzhen airport.
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