The Association for Computing Machinery has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention…
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The statcheck online tool developed by Michèle Nuijten at Tilburg University in the Netherlands has reduced statistical errors in scientific papers.
Nature From ACM TechNews | March 17, 2023
Google physicists have demonstrated that making their quantum code bigger can reduce the error rate of calculations.
Nature From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2023
Researchers at AI laboratory DeepMind have created an algorithm that can solve tough mathematical calculations with improved computing efficiency.
Nature From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2022
Adam Day at U.K.-based data services company Clear Skies developed a software tool that highlights potentially bogus scientific papers.
Nature From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2022
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 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
A spacecraft that was supposed to solve the mystery of methane on Mars has instead compounded scientists' confusion.
Nature From ACM News | April 11, 2019
Astronomers have finally glimpsed the blackness of a black hole. By stringing together a global network of radio telescopes, they have for the first time produced...Nature From ACM News | April 10, 2019
For the past year, space probe Hayabusa2 has pelted asteroid Ryugu with bouncing probes, shot a bullet at it, and taken a bite of it—all for science.
Nature From ACM News | April 8, 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