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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.
As an experienced cyber first responder, Julian Gutmanis had been called plenty of times before to help companies deal with the fallout from cyberattacks.
Technology Review From ACM News | March 7, 2019
Here's some breaking fake news … Russia has declared war on the United States after Donald Trump accidentally fired a missile in the air.
Technology Review From ACM News | February 15, 2019
There was a time when the world's two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology.
Technology Review From ACM News | February 8, 2019
Blake Johnson spends a lot of time thinking about things like superconducting cables and supercooled refrigerators.
Technology Review From ACM News | January 18, 2019
Algorithms are increasingly being used to make ethical decisions. Perhaps the best example of this is a high-tech take on the ethical dilemma known as the trolley...Technology Review From ACM News | January 18, 2019
GANs, or generative adversarial networks, are the social-media starlet of AI algorithms. They are responsible for creating the first AI painting ever sold at an ...Technology Review From ACM News | January 11, 2019
In the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, American military planners began to worry about the threat to US warplanes posed by new, radar-guided missile defenses...Technology Review From ACM News | January 3, 2019
New software can animate the central character in a photograph while leaving the rest of the image untouched.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 26, 2018
In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...Technology Review From ACM News | December 20, 2018
Inside a small laboratory in Boston's seaport district, buried within a jumble of lasers, lenses, mirrors, and a tangle of wiring, is a tiny chip that might be...Technology Review From ACM News | November 29, 2018
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
Technology Review From ACM News | November 8, 2018
Wi-Fi fills our world with radio waves. In your home, in the office, and increasingly on city streets, humans are bathed in a constant background field of 2.4-...Technology Review From ACM News | November 6, 2018
A few years ago, Edward Snowden, a contractor working for the US National Security Agency, leaked documents that showed the ways in which intelligence agenciestapped...Technology Review From ACM News | October 29, 2018
Researchers have found that machine vision systems cannot process optical illusions in the same way humans can.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2018
China might be at loggerheads with the United States over trade, but it is calling for a friendlier approach to the development of artificial intelligence.
Technology Review From ACM News | September 28, 2018
Google says the cooling systems of several of its data centers are now governed by an artificial intelligence algorithm.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2018
The first forensics tools for catching revenge porn and fake news created with AI have been developed through a program run by the US Defense Department.
Technology Reviewe From ACM News | August 7, 2018
AI researchers have demonstrated a self-teaching algorithm that gives a robot hand remarkable new dexterity.
Technology Review From ACM News | August 1, 2018