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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.
A complex in Prineville, OR, that houses Facebook servers recently was expanded with high-powered servers designed to accelerate research into machine learning....Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2016
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...Technology Review From ACM News | July 15, 2016
Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...Technology Review From ACM News | July 11, 2016
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report finding the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not properly tested the accuracy of its face-matching...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2016
In an effort to make eye tracking cheap, compact, and accurate enough to be included in smartphones, a group of researchers is crowdsourcing the collection of gaze...Technology Review From ACM News | July 7, 2016
The FBI has access to nearly 412 million photos in its facial recognition system—perhaps including the one on your driver's license.Technology Review From ACM News | June 28, 2016
One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.Technology Review From ACM News | June 8, 2016
Mobile phones have revolutionized the way scientists study human behavior, allowing them to watch people on a scale that has never been previously imagined.Technology Review From ACM News | June 6, 2016
Researchers at Princeton University say they have conducted the largest study yet on the technology that tracks people's movements around the Web. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 20, 2016
The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue.Technology Review From ACM News | May 20, 2016
Stanford University researchers have developed a computer-vision algorithm that predicts the movement of people in a busy space. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2016
Researchers have hypothesized a method to measure an individual's stress levels and determine whether they are being coerced into revealing a password. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 17, 2016
When social-media users upload photographs and caption them, they don't just label their contents. They tell a story, which gives the photos context and additional...Technology Review From ACM News | April 27, 2016
Researchers have compiled a massive public dataset for self-driving vehicles culled from thousands of hours of data from a single stretch of road over a 12-month...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2016
The ability to reproduce scent artificially is surprisingly complex, and the work of the Weizmann Institute of Science's David Harel sheds light on the issue. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2016
University College London lecturer David Silver suggests software similar to Google DeepMind's AlphaGo could be crafted to play poker competently.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2016
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...Technology Review From ACM News | April 1, 2016
Virtual currency could become more viable thanks to a new Bitcoin-like system developed by University College London researchers. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 14, 2016