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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A computer model of the London Underground predicts trains that travel too fast compound congestion when key locations outside the city center become bottlenecks...BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2015
Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns...BBC News From ACM News | September 18, 2015
Over the PA system a voice tells us not to be alarmed. What we are about to see is just a demonstration, courtesy of the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of the Interior...BBC News From ACM Careers | September 11, 2015
Two scientists at a German university have developed a tool which recognises a person's face in complete darkness.BBC News From ACM News | July 30, 2015
It couldn't get any more steampunk if it tried: a wooden robot hisses like an airbrake as a blast of compressed air shoves its arm sideways, sending a credit card...BBC News From ACM Careers | July 22, 2015
The face of a killer constructed from DNA left at the scene of a crime: it sounds like science fiction. But revealing the face of a criminal based on their genes...BBC News From ACM News | June 24, 2015
Final preparations are being made by 24 robotics teams about to compete for $3.5m (£2.3m) worth of prizes in a Pentagon-backed competition.BBC News From ACM News | June 4, 2015
A surprisingly simple bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more; they get confused by big numbers.BBC News From ACM News | May 5, 2015
The director of Google's self-driving car project says he wants self-driving cars to be standard on roads within five years. BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 20, 2015
All kinds of gadgets, from toasters to sprinklers, fridges to domestic heating systems, are now boasting sensors, actuators and low-powered embedded chips.BBC News From ACM News | February 20, 2015
Former ACM president Vint Cerf worries a forthcoming "digital Dark Age" will leave behind mountains of data people will no longer be able to access. BBC News From ACM TechNews | February 13, 2015
It's a video which is bound to go viral. Spot sets off down an office corridor, and then out into the open air.BBC News From ACM News | February 12, 2015