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.
Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2021
Many facial recognition systems used by law enforcement are shot through with biases. Can anything be done to make them fair and trustworthy?
Paul Marks From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2021
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2021
The last decade has seen major advancements in technology for the blind and visually impaired, but problems remain.
Logan Kugler From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2020
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2020
ISPs, app developers, and even the government may know more about you than you think.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2020
Videoconferencing apps took off during the COVID-19 lockdowns, but more efficient ways to collaborate virtually are waiting in the wings.
Paul Marks From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2020
A team of students from Emory University has won this year's $500,000 Alexa Prize from Amazon for advancing conversational artificial intelligence by designing...Forbes From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2020
Researchers from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi eavesdropped on cellphone calls by exploiting a security flaw in basestation implementations...Ruhr-University Bochum From ACM TechNews | August 19, 2020
Google says it has created "the world's largest earthquake detection network" by adding quake detection features to almost all Google Play Android phones.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2020
Cryptographers are developing algorithms to ensure security in a world of quantum computing.
Gregory Mone From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2020
The social media platforms like their freedom, but information gerrymandering may require legislation to fix.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2020
Purdue University and Sandia National Laboratories researchers are three-dimensionally (3D) printing minerals, in order to learn to better predict how and where...Purdue University News From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2020
Researchers have developed a technique to study glioblastoma brain tumors using a three-dimensionally (3D)-printed framework composed of human brain cells and biomaterials...News@Northeastern From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2020
YouTube has reduced the quality of video streaming to standard definition around the world in an effort to ease Internet traffic during the coronavirus outbreak...Bloomberg From ACM News | March 25, 2020
IBM will help coordinate an initiative to supply more than 330 petaflops of computing power to scientists researching COVID-19.
CNN From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2020