By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems…
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.
A new software program uses a matching algorithm to allocate refugees with no ties to the U.S. to their new homes.
The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2019
Before the tragedy seen all around the world, flames leaping from the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral, there was a smaller one, thousands of miles away in upstate New...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 16, 2019
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
In a video, a rodent reaches out and grabs a morsel of food, while small, colored dots highlight the positions of its knuckles.
The Atlantic From ACM News | July 6, 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
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...The Atlantic From ACM News | November 8, 2017
There were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service.
The Atlantic From ACM News | September 26, 2017
Take a video of a birthday cake's candles sparkling in an Instagram story, then tap the sticker button. Near the top of the list you'll see a slice of birthday...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | September 25, 2017
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 former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar, has a dream. It's a civilian utopian neuroscience dream that's kind of the inverse of the scenarios that the far-out...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 5, 2017
The world we experience is not the real world. It's a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world...The Atlantic From ACM News | June 21, 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
Over the last 20 years, the technology industry has become the most powerful industry in the world, boasting seven of the 20 most profitable companies.
The Atlantic From ACM Careers | May 24, 2017
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | May 23, 2017
The tendency for people to be repelled by increasingly humanoid and human-like robots may extend to chatbots and digital assistants as well.
The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2017
Remember when Luke's running the trench in the Death Star, and he's about to fire his fateful shot, and at the last minute he decides to turn off the targeting...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 13, 2017