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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
R. Stanley Williams, a senior fellow at Hewlett Packard Labs, proposes no longer following Moore's Law in chipmaking, saying in a recent research paper that the...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2017
Vanderbilt University professor Bharat Bhuva on Friday gave a presentation on single-event upsets at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2017
IBM Research scientists have created a device that siphons health data from multiple wearable devices and shares the results with a patient's doctor.
IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 21, 2017
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says his company is investigating and investing in technologies that promise to transcend the computing capabilities of current PCs and...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 14, 2017
Advanced artificial intelligence systems developed to defend assets in cyberspace might be turned to malevolent purposes by cybercriminals.
IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2016
Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology plans to build a super-efficient supercomputer.
IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2016
University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers have developed a neuromorphic chip designed for intelligent computers that are structured to discover patterns through...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2016
Google researchers are working to advance video-recognition technology, which Rajat Monga on Google's Brain team says is due to progress in deep-learning models...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 3, 2016
Google chief Internet evangelist and former ACM president Vint Cerf said he would change a few things about the Internet's creation if he could do it over again...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 26, 2016
The U.S. National Science Foundation will invest more than $400 million over the next seven years to fund next-generation wireless research. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 18, 2016
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are developing inexpensive mini-robots that can run, climb, fly, and communicate with emergency personnel....IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 21, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new approach to maintaining quantum superposition using synthetic diamonds. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2016
Conversation fillers such as "hmm" and "uh-huh" are critical to improving communication between humans and artificial intelligence.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 4, 2016
A Tor Project developer reports the project is enhancing its software to rapidly detect tampering to its network for the purpose of surveillance. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2016
Researchers at Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have found a way to dampen qubits' susceptibility to magnetic disruptions, or...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 18, 2016
A new app identifies food poisoning-related tweets and connects them to restaurants using geotagging, in order to identify likely hotspots of food poisoning.. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2016
The increasing popularity of life-like games and virtual reality technology is pushing the computing industry to develop better graphics technology. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 1, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a predictive tool that could give ships a two- to three-minute advance warning of approaching rogue...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 26, 2016
Researchers have found thousands of mobile applications implement cloud-based, back-end services in a way that lets anyone access sensitive records created by users...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2015
The Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking to replace conventional computer systems by developing and obtaining new computer designs.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 13, 2015