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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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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A New Movement in Seismology
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.
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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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Split Second
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
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Forging Relationships
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.
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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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Visualizing Sound
New techniques capture speech by looking for the vibrations it causes.
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Time For a Change
4D printing combines the dimension of time with the hope of building objects with new capabilities.
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Playing at Health
Developers try to tap the beneficial effects of video games.
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More Than a Mouse
Gesture and gaze are among the newest additions to a growing family of computer interfaces.
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Backing Creativity
Hacker spaces are spreading around the world, though some government funding is raising questions.
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Proofs Probable
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
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Decoding Dementia
Computer models may help neurologists unlock the secrets of brain disorders, from Alzheimer's to cancer.12