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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Back in the 1990s, observers predicted that the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) would be the nanomaterial that pushed silicon aside and created a post-CMOS...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 7, 2016
Transistors, the electronic amplifiers and switches found at the heart of everything from pocket radios to warehouse-size supercomputers, were invented in 1947.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | August 31, 2016
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing control algorithms that enable small-scale autonomous cars to race around dirt tracks at high...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2016
Despite changes to the law, the U.S. National Security Agency can still request metadata from tens of thousands of private phones if they are indirectly connected...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | May 17, 2016
A recurrent neural network developed at the University of California, San Diego can mine patterns in reviews and write its own contextually relevant reviews. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2016
Plasmonics technology has the potential to revolutionize laser printing, according to researchers at the Technical University of Denmark.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2015
A joint research project has yielded an interactive design system that enables hobbyists to create custom walking robots that can be printed in three dimensions...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2015
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 29, 2015
The swipe--without actually needing to touch a screen with a finger--will be the next dominant computer interface method, according to researchers in Germany. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 30, 2015
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2015
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 2, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric says its new noise suppression technology can improve the quality of hands-free phone communication in cars. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2015
A security vulnerability in the iPhone 5 series of smartphone could be exploited by malicious software and compromise a user's personal information via Siri.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2015
We've always known that the ATLAS DRC humanoid robot was due for some serious upgrades before the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, because having a robot that's...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 21, 2015
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2014