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.
Severely quadriplegic Henry Evans has beta-tested robots as part of a 20-year collaboration with healthcare roboticist Charlie Kemp.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2021
Inside a three-year competition that raises the question: How long until humans are obsolete?
The Washington Post Magazine From ACM News | November 22, 2021
The new 'Searchable Museum' will bring a trove of artifacts, stories, and images to the Internet.
The Washington Post From ACM News | November 22, 2021
Hackers put companies under intense pressure to pay ransoms quickly to get their computers systems back online.
The Washington Post From ACM News | November 16, 2021
Lawmakers want social networks to offer users a chronological timeline. Leaked documents help to explain why Facebook doesn't.
The Washington Post From ACM News | November 15, 2021
Sensors created by Sandia National Laboratories for U.S. ballistic missiles could augment their detonation timing and accuracy.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | November 1, 2021
The nation's decentralized, underfunded reporting system hampers efforts to combat the coronavirus.
The Washington Post From ACM News | September 30, 2021
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and other executives detail their plan for the metaverse and how it differs from Facebook's vision
The Washington Post From ACM News | September 29, 2021
The cryptocurrency is jettisoning the "miners" who track and validate transactions on the world's most-used blockchain network.
The Washington Post From ACM News | August 19, 2021
Philip Agre, a computer scientist turned humanities professor, was prescient about many of the ways technology would impact the world.
The Washington Post From ACM News | August 17, 2021
Health-care chatbots have been used for years, but they exploded in popularity over the past year as the system became overwhelmed with covid-related questions...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 26, 2021
Facebook and Google have engineered artificial intelligence systems capable of understanding dozens of languages through the efforts of scientists like Alexis Conneau...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2021
Alexis Conneau's work has helped Facebook and Google build artificial intelligence systems that can understand dozens of languages with startling accuracy.
The Washington Post From ACM News | July 1, 2021
The Internet giant is throwing tracking cookies in the dustbin, prompting big questions about privacy, competition, and advertising.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 18, 2021
Faced with no semiconductor chips for their ordering machines, restaurants pivot away from human servers and toward contact-less ordering.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 11, 2021
The problems appear related to Fastly, which runs a content delivery network, and have been largely resolved.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 8, 2021