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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.
It is more than a year since Watson, IBM's famous supercomputer, opened a new frontier for artificial intelligence by beating human champions of the quiz show Jeopardy...New Scientist From ACM News | August 23, 2012
Hungarian Academy of Sciences researchers have developed a data-mining tool that automatically helps predict emerging technologies.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 6, 2012
Many computer science researchers are trying to create an AI system that offers video game players a more tailored experience. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 11, 2012
Friending someone on Facebook makes an association public, but many relationships are never professed online.New Scientist From ACM News | May 24, 2012
Researchers at the St. Andrews and Calgary universities have developed FatFonts, a font that offers a way to write numbers so that their areas equal their numerical...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 16, 2012
Phase-change materials (PCMs) could thwart the limits of digital memory and enable a massive increase in storage density. PCM's biggest advantage is that it can...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2012
Organizations could use a new top-level domain, .data, to share data in a standard form, writes Stephen Wolfram, creator of the computational knowledge engine Wolfram...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2012
The response was as aggressive and swift as the riots themselves. Within a few hours of the worst of the looting across London and other English cities, attempts...New Scientist From ACM News | August 22, 2011
Anyone can now view for themselves the raw data that was at the centre of last year's "climategate" scandal.New Scientist From ACM News | July 28, 2011
MIT's Pranav Mistry has developed Sparsh, a system that enables users to transfer files from one device to another by simply touching their screens.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 4, 2011
A medical robot; a Google-killer; a financial advisor; a tool for trawling legal documents; an aide for the intelligence services. These are just some of the...New Scientist From ACM News | February 15, 2011
Mount Palomar Observatory's Palomar Transient Factory uses AI to locate variable stars, or transients. "Our grand goal is to remove astronomers from the real-time...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 24, 2011
With more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube each minute, finding the right video without downloading it first is difficult. And video searching on mobile...New Scientist From ACM News | December 20, 2010
A truly meaningful way of interacting with the web may finally be here, and it is called the semantic web. The idea was proposed over a decade ago by Tim Berners...New Scientist From ACM News | August 3, 2010
U.S. computer scientists have demonstrated that by using information from Internet images and videos it is possible to determine the addresses and locations of...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2010
Missed the winning goal in that crucial football match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Just get on the net and you'll find hours of user-generated video content of...New Scientist From ACM News | July 7, 2010
Dartmouth College researchers led by Emiliano Miluzzo say that sharing data gathered by cell phone sensors could improve the accuracy of the data and the applications...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 1, 2010
Forecasts about social and economic trends could be generated through the analysis of blogs and tweets, building on earlier research by Google and others to mine...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2010
Nathan Jacobs and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis have used a single camera to create a depth map, which records the geography of a three-dimensional...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 21, 2010
Microsoft's long-awaited body-sensing technology, Project Natal, got a new name last week at the E3 expo in Los Angeles. Kinect, as it is now called, is a set-top...New Scientist From ACM News | June 22, 2010