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.
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Computer Engineering: Feeling the Heat
A laptop computer can double as an effective portable knee-warmer—pleasant in a cold office.
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Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem
It's hard to stand out from the crowd—particularly if you are a single photon in a sea of millions in an optical fibre.
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Color Printing Reaches Its ltimate Resolution
The highest possible resolution images—about 100,000 dots per inch—have been achieved, and in full-color, with a printing method that uses tiny pillars a few tens...
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Mind-Controlled Robot Arms Show Promise
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature ...
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Hint of Higgs, but Little More
When its experiments started in earnest earlier this year, many scientists hoped that the world's most powerful collider would turn up new particles, additional...
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