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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The Open Group information technology consortium has announced the establishment of a data scientist certification program to address the shortage of data scientists...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2019
The Indeed job-search site says data scientist job postings from U.S. employers continue to outnumber interested applicants.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2019
A few days before Christmas, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill into law that devotes more than US $1.2 billion to a national effort dedicated to quantum...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 11, 2019
The Ethereum Foundation, and the broader open source movement devoted to advancing the cryptocurrency bitcoin, plan to field-test an overhaul of Ethereum's code...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 4, 2019
What's the best type of device from which to build a neural network? Of course, it should be fast, small, consume little power, have the ability to reliably store...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 17, 2018
Roboticists at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition are teaching Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas a more natural walking gait.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2018
A task force evaluated the feasibility of developing a functional quantum computer, emphasizing "the time and resources required, and how to assess the probability...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 10, 2018
DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Alphabet, has created a system that can quickly master any game in the class that includes chess, Go, and Shogi, and do...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 7, 2018
A new model can better predict social contagions that occur at political rallies than previous methods.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2018
Researchers at the University of Koblenz-Landa in Germany developed a robotic system that was able to successfully clean at least 80% of the liquid from on and...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2018
Researchers have created robots that can adapt to their environment based on centralized sensory processing, environmental perception, and decision-making software...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 8, 2018
Researchers have developed a method for constructing digital fingerprints that encode secret messages into the spiral points on the prints.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2018
When you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but the world starts to look more interesting if your hammer can change shape.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 31, 2018
Researchers have developed palm-sized drones that can forcefully tug objects 40 times their own mass by anchoring themselves to the ground or to walls.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2018
Would-be travelers of the galaxy, rejoice: The Chinese tech giant Baidu has invented a translation system that brings us one step closer to a software Babel fish...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 25, 2018
Researchers have outfitted a micro-electromechanical system with artificial intelligence, enabling neuromorphic computing in a microscale device and bringing edge...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2018