By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems…
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.
Since the dawn of the space age NASA and other agencies have spent billions of dollars to reconnoiter Mars—assailing it with spacecraft flybys, photo-snapping orbiters...Scientific American From ACM News | May 11, 2017
The Pentagon has known for years that a significant number of the replacement parts it buys for its missile guidance and satellite systems contain substandard counterfeit...Scientific American From ACM News | April 28, 2017
Watch enough science fiction movies and you'll probably come to the conclusion that humans are living on borrowed time.
Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2017
Ten years ago Dennis Degray's life changed forever when he slipped and fell while taking out the trash in the rain.
Scientific American From ACM News | February 23, 2017
It's not something NASA likes to advertise, but ever since its creation in 1958, the space agency has only conducted one direct, focused hunt for extraterrestrial...Scientific American From ACM News | February 21, 2017
Sixty-two percent of Americans get their news from social media, according to a 2016 poll by Pew Research Center.
Scientific American From ACM News | February 9, 2017
Interstellar travel, a timeworn staple of science fiction, can already be science fact if one has cash to spare
Scientific American From ACM News | February 7, 2017
Learning Morse code, with its tappity-tap rhythms of dots and dashes, could take far less effort—and attention—than one might think.
Scientific American From ACM News | January 23, 2017
The U.S. government on Tuesday issued rules for addressing cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices, providing manufacturers with guidelines for fixing security...Scientific American From ACM News | December 28, 2016
Donald Trump's ascension to the White House had very little to do with his views on the spread of high-speed broadband, wireless spectrum allocation—or any number...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 11, 2016
Late last week Obama administration officials used NBC News to send Moscow a cryptic threat: The U.S. government is "contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | October 19, 2016
Most of us think little of hopping on Google Maps to look at everything from a bird's-eye view of an entire continent to an on-the-ground view of a specific street...Scientific American From ACM News | September 19, 2016
When a single neuron fires, it is an isolated chemical blip. When many fire together, they form a thought.Scientific American From ACM News | August 26, 2016
Patients paralyzed by a spinal cord injury can face a grim and grueling recovery process—one in which regaining function is far from a sure thing. But a new study...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 16, 2016
Although clutter can be a nuisance, it does not typically pose a health threat—unless you're an aging neuron.Scientific American From ACM News | July 29, 2016
Emerging technologies that draw from biomedical technology, nanotechnology, information technology and other fields are developing at a rapid pace and may lead...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | July 26, 2016
When ground controllers begin powering up the Juno spacecraft's science instruments on July 6, one of their most important goals will be to get the microwave radiometer...Scientific American From ACM News | July 7, 2016