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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.
More than a dozen science and engineering organizations worked with ScienceDebate.org to draft 14 top science questions to ask the two main presidential candidates...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | October 19, 2012
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland for experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual...Scientific American From ACM News | October 9, 2012
Imagine seeing life through one eyeball but then being given the ability to view the world through two or even three eyeballs at once.Scientific American From ACM News | October 4, 2012
Despite advances in weather prediction technology, meteorologists must still qualify any hurricane forecasts with a "cone of uncertainty," which depicts just how...Scientific American From ACM News | July 19, 2012
Some people try to make the most of their spare time by exercising, volunteering, or simply recharging their batteries. Others like to use that time to build robots...Scientific American From ACM News | May 31, 2012
Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | May 15, 2012
Earlier this year Iran's defense minister put the world on notice: His nation had developed the ability to "easily" watch spacewalking astronauts from the ground...Scientific American From ACM News | May 1, 2012
Counterfeit electronics embedded in missile guidance systems and hundred-million-dollar aircraft have become a serious problem for the U.S. military and its contractors...Scientific American From ACM News | April 20, 2012
Although modern science calls for researchers to share their work so that their peers can verify the success or failure of experiments, most researchers still do...Scientific American From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2012
Modern science relies upon researchers sharing their work so that their peers can check and verify success or failure.Scientific American From ACM News | April 17, 2012
A heartbreaking, out-of-the-gate failure of Russia's sample return mission early this year created a wide circle of disappointment.Scientific American From ACM News | March 26, 2012
Windswept from cloud to cloud until they flutter to Earth, snowflakes assume a seemingly endless variety of shapes.Scientific American From ACM News | March 20, 2012
The quantum world and the everyday world of human experience are supposed to be two different realms. Quantum effects, as demonstrated in the lab, are usually confined...Scientific American From ACM News | March 13, 2012
What Einstein's E=mc2 is to relativity theory, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is to quantum mechanics—not just a profound insight, but also an iconic formula...Scientific American From ACM News | March 9, 2012
Digital innovators Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Danny Hillis, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, talk with Scientific American Executive Editor...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2012
When large airliners approach an airport for a landing, a combination of radio signals and high-intensity lighting shows the pilot exactly where the runway is,...Scientific American From ACM News | February 16, 2012
A fighter pilot heads back to base after a long mission, feeling spent. A warning light flashes on the control panel.Scientific American From ACM News | February 1, 2012
If there is one general rule about the limitations of the human mind, it is that we are terrible at multitasking.Scientific American From ACM News | January 19, 2012
Siri, a program in the latest Apple iPhone that can carry out a wide spectrum of vocal commands without requiring training or special syntax from the user, stands...Scientific American From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2012
The race to the $1,000 genome heated up today as Life Technologies, based in Carlsbad, Calif., announced it will debut a new sequencing machine this year that...Scientific American From ACM News | January 11, 2012