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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.
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...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2018
The In Codice Ratio project uses artificial intelligence and optical character recognition software to mine the Vatican Secret Archives and make its documents available...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | May 2, 2018
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.
The Atlantic From ACM Careers | August 24, 2017
The story of a duel between two men, one who dies, and the nature of the quest to build artificial intelligence.
The Atlantic From ACM News | July 24, 2017
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...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2017
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots' conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language.
The Atlantic From ACM News | June 15, 2017
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...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 2, 2017
The allure of building superior poker-playing computer programs is the chance to tackle the challenge of dealing with missing information. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2016
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.The Atlantic From ACM News | December 8, 2015
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 18, 2015
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...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 20, 2015
Imagine if every time you learned something new, you completely forgot how to do a thing you'd already learned.The Atlantic From ACM News | April 8, 2015
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | June 4, 2014
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...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 29, 2014