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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Virtual Duplicates
Digital twins aim to model reality so we can see how it changes.
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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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Fact-Finding Mission
Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
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Tracking COVID, Discreetly
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
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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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Using Functions for Easier Programming
Functional programming languages automate many of the details underlying specific operations.
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Always Out of Balance
Computational theorists prove there is no easy algorithm to find Nash equilibria, so game theory will have to look in new directions.
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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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Weaving the Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a paradigm shift that changed the world with his invention of the World Wide Web, Hypertext Transport Protocol, and Hypertext Markup...
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