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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Most of us take it for granted that math works—that scientists can devise formulas to describe subatomic events or that engineers can calculate paths for spacecraft...Scientific American From ACM News | August 3, 2011
Although the stories told by Pixar Animation Studios take place in richly realized fantasy realms, the science and technology required to create those worlds...Scientific American From ACM News | June 27, 2011
Since the turn of the 21st century, the number scientific papers published predominantly by Chinese researchers in any of the Nature journals has risen from six...Scientific American From ACM News | June 3, 2011
Advances in computer modeling and other technologies still cannot overcome the fundamental complexity of thunderstorm and subsequent tornado formation.Scientific American From ACM News | May 24, 2011
Google has a small fleet of robotic cars that since autumn have driven themselves for thousands of miles on the streets of Northern California without once striking...Scientific American From ACM News | May 18, 2011
In philosophy of mind, a "cerebroscope" is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today's language, which reads out the content of somebody's brain...Scientific American From ACM News | April 6, 2011
The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify.Scientific American From ACM News | December 30, 2010
A historic downward shift in U.S. research efficiency is described in a new report on science publication trends, showing that while funding rose, the quantity...Scientific American From ACM News | December 10, 2010
A new effort to ensure that the government can gain back-door access to encrypted messages could thwart one of the most promising applications of physics for...Scientific American From ACM News | October 4, 2010
When physicists puzzle out the workings of some new part of nature, that knowledge can be used to build devices that do amazing things--airplanes that fly, radios...Scientific American From ACM News | April 28, 2010
By highlighting the limits of traditional military technology, the drawn-out conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have spurred the U.S. defense department to shake...Scientific American From ACM News | April 14, 2010
More than a year after being launched by hackers on a campaign to infect computers running Microsoft Windows, the Conficker worm's effects are still being felt....Scientific American From ACM News | February 4, 2010
Swarm intelligence is a branch of artificial intelligence that attempts to get computers and robots to mimic the highly efficient behavior of colony insects such...Scientific American From ACM News | January 13, 2010
When Nintendo's Wii game console debuted in November 2006, its motion-sensing handheld "Wiimotes" got players off the couch and onto their feet.
Now Microsoft...Scientific American From ACM News | January 8, 2010
Supercomputers have long been an indispensable, albeit expensive, tool for researchers who need to make sense of vast amounts of data. One way that researchers...Scientific American From ACM News | October 19, 2009