Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.
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Shrinking Machines, Cellular Computers
Scientists are using DNA and RNA to build the world's tiniest robots and computing devices.
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Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights
A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.
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Broadband to Mars
Scientists are demonstrating that lasers could be the future of space communication.
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Sensors on the Brain
Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.
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Bias in Technology
As leading companies release troubling diversity statistics, experts search for solutions.
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Sensing Emotions
How computer systems detect the internal emotional states of users.
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The New Smart Cities
How urban information systems are slowly revamping the modern metropolis.
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Intelligent Living
After years of false starts, the smart home is gaining momentum.
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Future-Proof Encryption
Researchers are relying on quantum mechanics to generate unhackable methods of communication.
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Beyond Hadoop
The leading open source system for processing big data continues to evolve, but new approaches with added features are on the rise.
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