By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems…
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.
Jack J. Dongarra is the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high-performance...Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2022
Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2021
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2020
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, overcame industry indifference to found Pixar and put their computer graphics expertise to work.
...Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2020
Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2020
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2018
Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the...Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2018
More work is needed to make synthesized speech more natural, easier to understand, and more pleasant to hear.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2017
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2016
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2015
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2015
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2013
Computer models may help neurologists unlock the secrets of brain disorders, from Alzheimer's to cancer.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2013