Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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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.
The White House and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials support arguments by the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence leaders that encryption technology...Technology Review From ACM News | April 23, 2015
Back in the 1880s, the American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed something strange about the book of logarithmic tables in his library—the earlier pages were much...Technology Review From ACM News | April 22, 2015
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2015
When the FREAK encryption flaw was uncovered in early March, a team of researchers used a special tool to scan the entire Internet to identify vulnerable websites...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2015
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.Technology Review From ACM News | March 6, 2015
A new encrypted search system could enable law enforcement officials to collect data more openly without compromising investigations.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2014
A mocked-up set of busy streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will provide the sternest test yet for self-driving cars.Technology Review From ACM News | October 7, 2014
A new study systematically investigated the nature of so-called Facebook "like farms," services which will direct Facebook Likes to a given Facebook page for a...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 24, 2014
Facebook has become the advertising outlet of choice for many of the world’s businesses and companies.Technology Review From ACM News | September 22, 2014
Connecting a new home appliance to a personal Wi-Fi network or broadband modem could increase the risk that data will be taken from other computers in the house...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2014
Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...Technology Review From ACM News | August 22, 2014
New technology could enable law enforcement to identify people whose actions justify investigation and demonstrate probable cause via an authorized electronic...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2014
A study of malware operating on corporate and government networks suggests that the communication patterns of these programs could warn of major conflicts.Technology Review From ACM News | August 11, 2014
Researchers have uncovered Duqu, an unusual form of steganography-based malware that embeds itself in Microsoft Windows machines.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2014
Pro-Russian separatists may have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday because they mistook the civilian plane for something else...Technology Review From ACM News | July 21, 2014