By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems…
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.
Business, entertainment, and fashion companies already are staking their claims in this enhanced virtual world.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2022
Algorithms can have a devastating impact on people's lives, especially if they already are struggling economically.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2021
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2021
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2020
Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping...Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2020
Smartphones and consumer cameras increasingly give professional photographers a run for their money.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2019
A growing number of low-cost (and free!) solutions aim to open the Internet to developing regions.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2018
Bioprinting has generated bones, cartilage, and some muscles; hearts and livers are still years away.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2017
Developers of innovative assistive devices compete as a means of networking with each other.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2017