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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.
Missing documentation and obsolete environments force participants in the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge to get creative.
Nature From ACM News | August 26, 2020
The U.S. National Science Foundation has taken action in 16-to-20 individual cases, most involving "very well-known academics," in which foreign ties were not properly...Nature From ACM News | July 10, 2020
Art historians are starting to utilize machine learning to provide empirical support for theories previously limited to the subjective eye of the beholders.
Nature From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2019
The number of international students enrolling in U.S. graduate programs is falling, according to reports from the U.S. Council of Graduate Schools in Washington...Nature From ACM Careers | December 14, 2018
When computer scientist Christian Berger's team sought to get its project about self-driving vehicle algorithms on the road, it faced a daunting obstacle.
Nature From ACM News | September 11, 2018
After being kicked out of a hotel conference room where they had participated in a three-day open-science workshop and hackathon, a group of computer scientists...Nature From ACM News | August 16, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018
Beijing has announced plans to build a brain-science centre that will rival in size some of the world's largest neuroscience organizations. It will also serve as...Nature From ACM News | April 6, 2018
Computer software can now quickly detect duplicate images across large swathes of the research literature, three scientists say.
Nature From ACM News | February 23, 2018
For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in terms of the total number of science publications, according to statistics compiled by the US National...Nature From ACM Careers | January 19, 2018
Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, specialises in detecting manipulated images and videos. Farid, who provides his...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2017
Sebastian Neubert, a particle physicist at Heidelberg University in Germany, leads a group studying subatomic particles called pentaquarks. The six team members...Nature From ACM News | October 4, 2017
Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles.
Nature From ACM News | September 19, 2017
Only metres away from the tourist throngs that bustle through Venice's crowded piazzas, the silence inside Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is so profound it hurts...Nature From ACM News | June 14, 2017
In 2015, geneticist Guy Reeves was trying to configure a free software system called Galaxy to get his bioinformatics projects off the ground.
Nature From ACM News | May 31, 2017
Most researchers think of planetariums, if they think of them at all, as a place to take schoolchildren for whizzy trips through the stars, with nothing to offer...Nature From ACM News | May 5, 2017
One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...Nature From ACM Careers | December 12, 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