Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
From ACM NewsAllyn Jackson Commissioned by CACM Staff| January 31, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Researchers at NewsGuard, which monitors and studies online misinformation, found that OpenAI's online chatbot ChatGPT can be used to generate propaganda and misinformation...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | January 26, 2023
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to grant city police the option to deploy potentially lethal robots in emergency situations.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2022
The U.S. government has warned employers that artificial intelligence technology for screening new job candidates or tracking productivity could violate civil rights...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2022
The National Hockey League is launching a faceoff probability statistic, using Amazon Web Services to apply 10 years of data and in-game analytics.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | March 2, 2022
The driver of a Tesla on Autopilot that ran a red light and killed two people in another car in 2019 faces two counts of vehicular manslaughter.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | January 24, 2022
Autonomous technology developer TuSimple said its self-driving unmanned semitruck completed an 80-mile trip in Arizona on public roads without human intervention...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2022
The International Boxing Association used an artificial intelligence system to evaluate judges and referees before clearing them for the current men's world championships...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | November 8, 2021
The Mayflower Autonomous Ship set off this week to retrace the journey of its 1620 namesake across the Atlantic Ocean.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | June 18, 2021
The National Football League used Amazon Web Services' cloud platform to arrange its just-released 272-game 2021 schedule.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | May 14, 2021
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence's final report to Congress calls on the U.S. to enhance its AI skills as a means of countering China...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2021
General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit said it will remove human backup drivers from the driverless vehicles it is testing on San Francisco streets by year's...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | October 21, 2020
SK Telecom operates an artificial intelligence-powered network of voice-enabled "smart" speakers to monitor thousands of seniors during the coronavirus pandemic...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | June 5, 2020
U.S. dairy farmers are using technology to boost efficiency and control costs amid low milk prices and Americans buying less milk.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | February 5, 2020
The Trump administration is proposing new federal rules for regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the private sector.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | January 8, 2020
Retailers are testing in-store cameras designed to guess shoppers' ages and genders, to inform real-time advertisements on store video screens.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2019
YouTube might need a few more humans. The machines whose job is to tamp down conspiracy theories are not cutting it just yet.
The Associated Press From ACM News | April 18, 2019
United Parcel Service and drone manufacturer Matternet launched a drone delivery service this week by transporting a medical sample between North Carolina hospitals...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | March 27, 2019
In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles...The Associated Press From ACM News | February 5, 2019
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them,...The Associated Press From ACM News | November 7, 2018