The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages
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From ACM TechNewsMIT News| March 17, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone's job—perhaps your own?
The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 1, 2017
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...The New York Times Magazine From ACM News | April 25, 2017
New tools must be developed to track and measure the impact of artificial intelligence and automation on the U.S. job market, according to a report from an expert...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2017
Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada—backed by...The New York Times From ACM Careers | April 10, 2017
Robert O. Work, the veteran defense official retained as deputy secretary by President Trump, calls them his "A.I. dudes."
The New York Times From ACM News | February 6, 2017
Underneath the nostalgia and hope in President Obama's farewell address Tuesday night was a darker theme: the struggle to help the people on the losing end of technological...The New York Times From ACM News | January 13, 2017
Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on.
The New York Times From ACM News | January 9, 2017
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.
The New York Times From ACM News | December 27, 2016
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...The New York Times From ACM News | December 22, 2016
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...The New York Times From ACM News | December 20, 2016
A self-driving electric bus relying on laser sensors, global-positioning systems, and software is undergoing testing in Helsinki, Finland.The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2016
The ethics center is being established at a time of growing international concern about the impact of artificial intelligence technologies.The New York Times From ACM News | November 2, 2016
Ali Farhadi holds a puny $5 computer, called a Raspberry Pi, comfortably in his palm and exults that his team of researchers has managed to squeeze into it a powerful...The New York Times From ACM News | October 31, 2016
The Pentagon has made artificial intelligence the core of its agenda to maintain the U.S. position as the world's leading military power.The New York Times From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2016
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...The New York Times From ACM News | October 25, 2016
As the Internet of things moves closer to realization, initiatives must be taken to ensure the technology is secure, says Michael Walker at DARPA. "If we want...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2016
Google is hoping to develop its Assistant, a Siri-like technology to be included on the company's new smartphones and other products, into something like the computer...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 4, 2016
This is the year artificial intelligence came into its own for mainstream businesses, at least as a marketing feature.The New York Times From ACM News | September 20, 2016