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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Blake Johnson spends a lot of time thinking about things like superconducting cables and supercooled refrigerators.
Technology Review From ACM News | January 18, 2019
Algorithms are increasingly being used to make ethical decisions. Perhaps the best example of this is a high-tech take on the ethical dilemma known as the trolley...Technology Review From ACM News | January 18, 2019
Finland has launched an ambitious challenge to teach the basics of artificial intelligence to 1% of its population.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 16, 2019
GANs, or generative adversarial networks, are the social-media starlet of AI algorithms. They are responsible for creating the first AI painting ever sold at an ...Technology Review From ACM News | January 11, 2019
In the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, American military planners began to worry about the threat to US warplanes posed by new, radar-guided missile defenses...Technology Review From ACM News | January 3, 2019
Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence system to convert ordinary monaural sounds into nearly three-dimensional sounds.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 3, 2019
New software can animate the central character in a photograph while leaving the rest of the image untouched.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 26, 2018
These faces don't seem particularly remarkable. They could easily be taken from, say, Facebook or LinkedIn. In reality, they were dreamed up by a new kind of AI...Technology Review From ACM News | December 21, 2018
In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...Technology Review From ACM News | December 20, 2018
Amazon has casually unveiled what could turn into a fundamentally different way to build software.
MIT Technology Review From ACM News | December 17, 2018
A new design for neural networks lacks traditional stacked layers of simple computational nodes that work together to find patterns in data.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 14, 2018
Canada and France recently announced plans for an international panel to assess the dangers of artificial intelligence and formulate appropriate policies.
MIT Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 13, 2018
Researchers in the U.K. have developed an algorithm that can predict "pump-and-dump" cryptocurrency scams prior to their occurrence.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2018
Inside a small laboratory in Boston's seaport district, buried within a jumble of lasers, lenses, mirrors, and a tangle of wiring, is a tiny chip that might be...Technology Review From ACM News | November 29, 2018
Researchers have constructed the world's first single-layer neural network, known as a perceptron, and induced it to perform simple image processing tasks.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 27, 2018
Harvard Kennedy School's Dipayan Ghosh and former U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler have launched a new AI policy initiative aimed at educating U.S. politicians and...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2018
Startup Kebotix has created software that learns material chemistry from models of molecules with known properties in order to design novel compounds.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 12, 2018
Researchers have developed a technique to see through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and an ordinary smartphone.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2018