Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers have developed a tiny sensor powered by the radio waves it uses to communicate information.BBC News From ACM TechNews | December 11, 2015
A new method of delivering data, which uses the visible spectrum rather than radio waves, has been tested in a working office.BBC News From ACM News | December 2, 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
A new tool can identify people in complete darkness by using their thermal signature and matching infrared images with ordinary photos.BBC News From ACM TechNews | August 3, 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