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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Thomas Jefferson is known for a lot of things—writing the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, owning hundreds of slaves despite believing...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 3, 2017
The telescope offers one of the most seductive suggestions a technological object can carry: the idea that humans might pick up a thing, peer into it, and finally...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 2, 2017
Stanford University professor Tom Mullaney believes computers make Chinese far more advantageous than typing English via a QWERTY keyboard.The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2016
When mark zuckerberg posted a picture of himself on Facebook in June, a sharp-eyed observer spotted a piece of tape covering his laptop’s camera.The Atlantic From ACM News | October 11, 2016
To prepare for the possibility that it will one day deploy swarms of uncrewed drone submarines, the U.S. Navy is developing a system that will allow the global...The Atlantic From ACM News | June 13, 2016
In a Congress where lawmakers have trouble performing even the most basic functions of the legislative branch—funding the government or approving judicial nominees...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 7, 2016
The allure of building superior poker-playing computer programs is the chance to tackle the challenge of dealing with missing information. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2016
There's a battle raging over whether academic research should be free, and it’s overflowing into the dark web.The Atlantic From ACM News | February 9, 2016
Three years ago, Edward Snowden leaked troves of previously classified information that laid bare the American government's widespread surveillance of its citizens...The Atlantic From ACM News | February 3, 2016
People are always forgetting names. That's because, at least in part, names are arbitrary. A name, in and of itself, doesn't offer much context.The Atlantic From ACM News | February 1, 2016
People love free stuff. That's the principle that helps explain the complicated series of privacy-related calculations that modern life increasingly requires.The Atlantic From ACM News | January 14, 2016
It’s difficult to define "the cloud." Even more difficult, perhaps, is photographing it. But that's precisely what Peter Garritano set out to do with his photoThe...The Atlantic From ACM News | January 7, 2016
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.The Atlantic From ACM News | December 8, 2015
There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance.The Atlantic From ACM News | November 20, 2015