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From ACM NewsKaren Emslie Commissioned by CACM Staff| March 2, 2021
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Search engine developers are moving beyond the problem of document analysis, toward the elusive goal of figuring out what people really want.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2016
Synthetic biologists may be closing in on potentially world-changing breakthroughs, but they are often hamstrung by a shortage of software tools.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2015
Next-generation scientific instruments are forcing researchers to question the limits of massively parallel computing.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2014
New handheld medical diagnostic tools promise more efficient, lower-cost healthcare — but at what price?Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2013
Getting rid of obsolete data is getting more difficult, thanks to new regulations and more personal devices in the workplace.Alex Wright From ACM News | May 21, 2013
The new Mars rover has attracted plenty of attention for its planetary gymnastics, but the big breakthroughs are under the hood.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2013
Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever learn to get along?Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2012
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2011
In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2010
Thanks to computer scientists like Barbara Liskov, researchers are making major progress with cost-efficient fault tolerance for Web-based systems.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2009
Future generations of smartphones will be context aware, tracking your behavior, providing information about the immediate environment, and anticipating your intentions...Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2009
While the Semantic Web may be a long time coming, Deep Web search strategies offer the promise of a semantic Web.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2008