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.
With Google Translate's new handwriting tool, users can draw an unfamiliar word or character on their Android smartphone or tablet and get a translation. CNet From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2013
By wielding a potent legal threat, the U.S. government is often able to force Internet companies to aid its surveillance demands.CNET From ACM News | July 17, 2013
ICANN, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, said it has signed agreements that will bring Chinese, Russian, and Arabic domain names...CNET From ACM News | July 15, 2013
Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.CNET From ACM News | June 20, 2013
Augmented reality technologies have been in development in university labs and small companies for almost 50 years.CNet From ACM TechNews | June 12, 2013
The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...CNET From ACM News | May 29, 2013
Google processes about 100 billion search requests a month, and about 15 percent of them take longer to process because the request is totally new to it.CNet From ACM TechNews | May 15, 2013
Law enforcement officials could have something very different on their hands as they investigate the dual bomb blasts that struck the Boston Marathon finish line...CNET From ACM News | April 16, 2013
Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service has stymied attempts by federal drug enforcement agents to eavesdrop on suspects' conversations, an internal government...CNET From ACM News | April 4, 2013
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance...CNET From ACM News | March 8, 2013
The U.S Federal Trade Commission said today that it is cracking down on marketers that are allegedly bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted on...CNET From ACM News | March 7, 2013
IBM wants to advance supercomputing technology in processing, optical communications, and memory by using the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope. CNet From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2013
Technology evangelists have proposed a new inter-species Internet that would facilitate communication between humans and animals. CNet From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2013
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project has scored its 14th consecutive victory, discovering the largest prime number so far.CNET From ACM News | February 8, 2013
Had Dr. Dipak Chowdhury known just how accident-prone I really am, he never would have handed over the 0.1-millimeter sheet of glass for me to bend between my fingers...CNET From ACM News | February 4, 2013
Yale University professor David Gelernter recently predicted the end of current Web and search technology as the focus shifts from a space-based Web to a time-based...CNet From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2013
The Moving Picture Experts Group has developed the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC). The video-compression technology will enable higher-quality video, and also...CNet From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2013