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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.
An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons...Nature Machine Intelligence From ACM News | March 18, 2022
Robotic assistants could be used in nursing and retirement homes to help seniors care for themselves and assist with chores.
Nature From ACM TechNews | January 24, 2022
Proof-assistant software handles an abstract concept at the cutting edge of research, revealing a bigger role for software in mathematics.
Nature From ACM News | June 21, 2021
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
Scientists worldwide are scrambling to track and counter the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic.
Nature From ACM TechNews | June 8, 2020
The U.S. National Science Foundation estimated China's research and development funding is rapidly catching up to that of the U.S.
Nature From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump nominated computer scientist and Arizona State University vice president Sethuraman Panchanathan to be director of the U.S. National...Nature From ACM TechNews | December 20, 2019
The open-source Julia language combines the speed of "compiled" languages such as Fortran and C with the interactivity and syntax of "scripting" languages such...Nature From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2019
A new artificial intelligence program beat elite professional poker players at six-player no-limit Texas hold'em poker.
Nature From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2019
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
Yoshua Bengio is one of three computer scientists who last week shared the US$1-million A. M. Turing award—one of the field's top prizes.
Nature From ACM Opinion | April 4, 2019
Biologists the world over routinely pay companies to synthesize snippets of DNA for use in the laboratory or clinic.
Nature From ACM News | February 5, 2019
Universities on the continent are rapidly losing talent to industry in the United States and China, say scientists behind the initiative.
Nature From ACM News | December 17, 2018
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