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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Always Improving Performance
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...
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Getting Down to Basics
2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman helped develop formal language theory, invented efficient algorithms to drive the tasks of a...
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Catching the Fakes
Applying neural networks to images helps identify counterfeit goods.
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Your Wish Is My CMD
Artificial intelligence could automate software coding.
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Seeing Through Walls
Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.
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Neural Net Worth
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun this month will receive the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made...
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A New Movement in Seismology
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.
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Rewarded for RISC
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients David Patterson and John Hennessy developed the "dangerous" idea that software should be simpler so it can be executed more quickly...
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Going Serverless
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...
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A Block on the Old Chip
Block copolymers may help transistors shrink to tinier dimensions.
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Building a Brain May Mean Going Analog
Analog circuits consume less power per operation than CMOS technologies, and so should prove more efficient.
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Lawmakers Seek to Expand Repair Options
End-users want to be able to repair their expensive electronics; manufacturers disagree.
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Head-Mounted Displays to Aid the Disabled
Products like the Oculus Rift and Google Glass could help ameliorate physical and perceptual impairments.
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Plenty of Proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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General Agreement
Leslie Lamport contributed to the theory and practice of building distributed computing systems that work as intended.
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Bouncing Robot Could Soften Future Nasa Landings
‘Tensegrity’ provides an alternative to lots of rugged equipment.
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Stopping the Leaks
Side channels give out information that can be used to crack secrets, but researchers are identifying the holes and trying to close them.
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ist Conference Presents Prototype Interface Projects
User interfaces have moved beyond mice and keyboards to touch screens, voice controls, and visual inputs like the Microsoft Kinect as was demonstrated at the recent...
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Quantum Computing Claims Produce Uncertainty
A Canadian company developing a quantum computer made news in May when it sold a system to defense manufacturer Lockheed-Martin for $10 million, though skeptics...
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Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'12