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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.
The company that makes the world's only commercially available quantum computers has released its biggest machine yet—and researchers are paying close attention...Nature From ACM News | January 25, 2017
A mystery player causing a stir in the world of the complex strategy game Go has been revealed as an updated version of AlphaGo, the artificial-intelligence program...Nature From ACM News | January 4, 2017
When geneticist Daniel MacArthur checks into his lab, the first thing he does is fire up Slack, a workplace messaging app.
Nature From ACM News | December 29, 2016
In a technical tour-de-force, physicists have made the first measurements of how antimatter atoms absorb light.
Nature From ACM News | December 19, 2016
The Minecraft video game was familiar to José Hernández-Orallo long before he started using it for his own research.
Nature From ACM News | December 15, 2016
A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer...Nature From ACM News | November 11, 2016
For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne...Nature From ACM News | November 10, 2016
Photos of a huge circle of churned-up Martian soil leave few doubts: a European Space Agency (ESA) probe that was supposed to test landing technology on Mars crashed...Nature From ACM News | October 25, 2016
The race is on build a "universal" quantum computer. Such a device could be programmed to speedily solve problems that classical computers cannot crack, potentially...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 21, 2016
Almost three weeks after it crash-landed the Rosetta orbiter on a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up to land another spacecraft—this time on Mars...Nature From ACM News | October 18, 2016
The observable Universe contains about 2 trillion galaxies—more than ten times as many as previously estimated, according to the first significant revision of the...Nature From ACM News | October 17, 2016
Artificial-intelligence systems known as neural networks can recognize images, translate languages and even master the ancient game of Go. But their limited ability...Nature From ACM News | October 14, 2016