Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
From ACM NewsAllyn Jackson Commissioned by CACM Staff| January 31, 2023
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In the dark abandoned shell of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Rosemary and Sakura shoot what looks like a dystopian first-person shooter game.New Scientist From ACM News | April 16, 2015
For a few days last summer, a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.New Scientist From ACM News | April 13, 2015
Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.New Scientist From ACM Careers | April 1, 2015
During the Middle Ages, the Vikings set sail in longships to raid faraway settlements and plunder their riches, but how did they find their way?New Scientist From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Philae, the European Space Agency probe that landed on and then bounced across the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in November, has provided researchers...New Scientist From ACM News | March 18, 2015
In 1950, Nobel prizewinning physicist Enrico Fermi posed his famous paradox: if extraterrestrial intelligence exists, why haven't we found it?New Scientist From ACM News | December 29, 2014
Ripples in space-time could squeeze and stretch the sun and Jupiter, forming a gigantic gravitational-wave detector in our own celestial backyard.New Scientist From ACM News | December 10, 2014
Feeling is believing. A system that uses sound waves to project "haptic holograms" into mid-air—letting you touch 3D virtual objects with your bare hands—is poised...New Scientist From ACM News | December 5, 2014
They could be the most powerful computers in the world—so perhaps it's no surprise that the biggest internet company on the planet is testing one out.New Scientist From ACM News | December 4, 2014
A "time cloak" that conceals events rather than objects can hide secret messages through a trick of light, making information invisible to all but the intended...New Scientist From ACM News | December 1, 2014