Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Artificial Skin That Senses, and Stretches, Like the Real Thing
Some high-tech prosthetic limbs can be controlled by their owners, using nerves, muscles, or even the brain. However, there's no way for the wearer to tell if an...
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'nanobuds' Could Turn Almost Any Surface Into a Touch Sensor
Transparent films containing carbon nanobuds—molecular tubes of carbon with ball-like appendages—could turn just about any surface, regardless of its shape, into...
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Who Owns the Biggest Biotech Discovery of the Century?
Last month in Silicon Valley, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed up in black gowns to receive the $3 million Breakthrough Prize, a glitzy...
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Google's Intelligence Designer
Demis Hassabis started playing chess at age four and soon blossomed into a child prodigy.
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3-D-Printing Bio-Electronic Parts
A 3-D printer can already make a prototype or spare part out of metal or polymer.
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How Google 'translates' Pictures Into Words sing Vector Space Mathematics
Translating one language into another has always been a difficult task.
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Fmri Data Reveals the Number of Parallel Processes Running in the Brain
The human brain is often described as a massively parallel computing machine. That raises an interesting question: just how parallel is it?
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How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionizing Flu Forecasting
This time last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta launched a competition to find the best way to forecast the characteristics of the...
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Random Image Experiment Reveals The Building Blocks of Human Imagination
Here's a curious experiment.
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Google's Secretive Deepmind Start-up nveils A 'neural Turing Machine'
One of the great challenges of neuroscience is to understand the short-term working memory in the human brain.
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Materials Trick Might Help Move Computers Beyond Silicon
After decades of repeated reinvention, the silicon transistor is starting to show its age, and the industry is hunting for alternatives.
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Should Industrial Robots Be Able to Hurt Their Human Coworkers?
How much should a robot be allowed to hurt its coworkers?
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Microsoft's Quantum Mechanics
In 2012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics that started chatter about a Nobel Prize.
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Town Built For Driverless Cars
A mocked-up set of busy streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will provide the sternest test yet for self-driving cars.
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What It Will Take For Computers to Be Conscious
Is a worm conscious? How about a bumblebee? Does a computer that can play chess "feel" anything?
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Obama's Brain Project Backs Neurotechnology
The White House said that President Obama's BRAIN Initiative is generating interest from companies and philanthropies in a sign of what it calls a wider partnership...
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Radio Waves Offer Cheap Gesture Detection on Smartphones
A research project at the University of Washington shows a way to add gesture control to phones without requiring sophisticated new sensors.
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Robots That Learn Through Repetition, Not Programming
Eugene Izhikevich thinks you shouldn't have to write code in order to teach robots new tricks.
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How Network Theory Is Revealing Previously nknown Patterns in Sport
If you've ever watched soccer, you'll know of the subtle differences in tactics and formation between different teams.
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