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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 new software program uses a matching algorithm to allocate refugees with no ties to the U.S. to their new homes.
The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2019
Before the tragedy seen all around the world, flames leaping from the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral, there was a smaller one, thousands of miles away in upstate New...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 16, 2019
Ohio State University researchers investigating the challenge of ambiguous language for computers used an online game to clarify work in the field of natural language...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2018
In a video, a rodent reaches out and grabs a morsel of food, while small, colored dots highlight the positions of its knuckles.
The Atlantic From ACM News | July 6, 2018
The In Codice Ratio project uses artificial intelligence and optical character recognition software to mine the Vatican Secret Archives and make its documents available...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | May 2, 2018
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...The Atlantic From ACM News | November 8, 2017
There were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service.
The Atlantic From ACM News | September 26, 2017
Take a video of a birthday cake's candles sparkling in an Instagram story, then tap the sticker button. Near the top of the list you'll see a slice of birthday...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | September 25, 2017
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
The Atlantic From ACM Careers | August 24, 2017
The story of a duel between two men, one who dies, and the nature of the quest to build artificial intelligence.
The Atlantic From ACM News | July 24, 2017
The former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar, has a dream. It's a civilian utopian neuroscience dream that's kind of the inverse of the scenarios that the far-out...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 5, 2017
Researchers at the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab have found that bots they were training to negotiate with each other began conversing in a non-human...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2017
The world we experience is not the real world. It's a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world...The Atlantic From ACM News | June 21, 2017
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots' conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language.
The Atlantic From ACM News | June 15, 2017