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.
From ACM TechNews
How Computers Parse the Ambiguity of Everyday Language
Ohio State University researchers investigating the challenge of ambiguous language for computers used an online game to clarify work in the field of natural language...
From ACM TechNews
AI Cracking Open the Vatican's Secret Archives
The In Codice Ratio project uses artificial intelligence and optical character recognition software to mine the Vatican Secret Archives and make its documents available...
From ACM Careers
Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
From ACM News
How Checkers Was Solved
The story of a duel between two men, one who dies, and the nature of the quest to build artificial intelligence.
From ACM TechNews
What an Ai's Non-Human Language Actually Looks Like
Researchers at the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab have found that bots they were training to negotiate with each other began conversing in a non-human...
From ACM News
An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots' conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language.
From ACM News
If Google Teaches an AI to Draw, Will That Help It Think?
Imagine someone told you to draw a pig and a truck.
From ACM News
Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
The telescope offers one of the most seductive suggestions a technological object can carry: the idea that humans might pick up a thing, peer into it, and finally...
From ACM TechNews
How to Build an nbeatable Poker-Playing Robot
The allure of building superior poker-playing computer programs is the chance to tackle the challenge of dealing with missing information.
From ACM News
The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.
From ACM Opinion
Beware the Listening Machines
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.
From ACM Opinion
Hacking the Brain
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries—the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right...
From ACM News
Teaching a Computer Not to Forget
Imagine if every time you learned something new, you completely forgot how to do a thing you'd already learned.
From ACM News
Robot vs. Robot
Beautiful mathematical patterns are hidden in the chaos of Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings.
From ACM Opinion
The Voice-Activated Video Game
When he was in grad school, the roboticist Daniel Wilson installed 150 binary sensors in his house.
From ACM Careers
A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.
From ACM News
How to Fool a Computer With Optical Illusions
Computers, like people, understand what they see in the world based on what they've seen before.
From ACM Careers
A Rare Look Inside the Air Force's Drone Training Classroom
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.
From ACM Opinion
How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...12