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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.
A cognitive psychology experiment has revealed differences in how humans and computers see images, says Weizmann Institute of Science professor Shimon Ullman. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2016
Software engineering at Yahoo has undergone a transformation resulting in fewer errors and a much faster development cycle. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 15, 2015
Researchers at Iran's University of Tehran have unveiled a humanoid robot that can walk, mimic a person's arm gestures, and stand on one foot while bending backwards...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2015
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 29, 2015
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 30, 2015
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 2, 2015
A security vulnerability in the iPhone 5 series of smartphone could be exploited by malicious software and compromise a user's personal information via Siri.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2015
We've always known that the ATLAS DRC humanoid robot was due for some serious upgrades before the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, because having a robot that's...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 21, 2015
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2014
In September 1976, in the midst of the Cold War, Victor Ivanovich Belenko, a disgruntled Soviet pilot, veered off course from a training flight over Siberia in...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 24, 2014
The TOP500 semi-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, announced yesterday, revealed that China's Tianhe-2 has kept its first-place position...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 24, 2014
Chalmers University of Technology Ph.D. Viktor Larsson's doctoral dissertation describes software that would help hybrid vehicles optimize battery usage. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 27, 2014
When teams participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced last year, almost all of them provided reasonably detailed renderings that gave us...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 11, 2013
Bitcoin, the leading online alternative currency, has attracted high-minded entrepreneurs and crooks alike.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | November 7, 2013
Computer scientists have developed a "mathematical obfuscation" scheme to prevent hackers from reverse-engineering software. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2013
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | February 13, 2013