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ACM Turing Award Honors Bob Metcalfe for Ethernet
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention… From ACM CareersAn 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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Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else
It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial...
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If Your Shrink Is a Bot, How Do You Respond?
Her hair is brown and tied back into a professional-looking ponytail.
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Litterbugs Beware: Turning Found Dna Into Portraits
Heather Dewey-Hagborg was sitting in a therapy session a while ago and noticed a painting on the wall. The glass on the frame was cracked, and lodged in the crack...
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Why Is This Supercomputer So Superfast?
The world's fastest supercomputers have come back to the U.S. In June, the title was claimed by a machine named Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore Labs. Monday, at the...
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To This Agency, There's Only One Way to Operate: Precisely
David Wineland is the American half of the scientific duo celebrating the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday.
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Swarming p A Storm: Why Animals School And Flock
By tricking live fish into attacking computer-generated "prey," scientists have learned that animals like birds and fish may indeed have evolved to swarm together...
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Digital Domain Grapples With Fur, Feathers
You may not have heard of the special-effects studio Digital Domain, but you've probably seen their work. They sank the Titanic for James Cameron; they aged Brad...
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Nasa's Lessons From The Outer Limits
In April 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched a space shuttle program meant to take astronauts, cargo, research experiments and military...
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