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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.
Fans of crime writer Raymond Chandler's wise-cracking prose would no doubt be pleased that there's a real-life private detective agency run by two men called Raymond...BBC News From ACM News | April 8, 2016
A new supercomputer simulation of the circulation of blood throughout the entire human body correlates very closely with real-world flow measurements.BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2016
Nearly 40 years ago, radio astronomer Jerry Ehman was scanning a part of the sky hoping to detect a signal from an alien civilisation.BBC News From ACM News | February 23, 2016
In Europe and America, this is one in five people. And since they are less likely to be in work, their poverty rate is about twice as high.BBC News From ACM News | February 1, 2016
Until now, Facewatch has provided local groups of businesses with a way to share their CCTV images of shoplifters and other potential offenders.BBC News From ACM News | December 18, 2015
Having certain robots operate using the electronic equivalent of an endocrine system could present advantages, according to researchers. BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 21, 2015
A virtual assistant developed at Cardiff University recently had its first public trial at the BBC's Make It Digital event. BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
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