Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
From ACM NewsAllyn Jackson Commissioned by CACM Staff| January 31, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
NASA's Opportunity rover began its 15th year on Mars this week, although the intrepid robotic explorer may already be dead.
The New York Times From ACM News | January 25, 2019
About 150 Jersey cows in the rolling terrain at Rivendale Farms in Bulger, some 25 miles west of Pittsburgh, wear Fitbit-like collars that monitor their movement...The New York Times From ACM News | January 14, 2019
NASA's new planet-hunting machine, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is racking up scores of alien worlds.
The New York Times From ACM News | January 9, 2019
In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers...The New York Times From ACM News | December 26, 2018
Slow uptake of driverless passenger services is spurring the autonomous industry to experiment with offerings like food deliveries from small, self-driving vehicles...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2018
In one of those exercises that you think should be impossible or perhaps a punishment for some infraction, a team of astronomers has now measured the total amount...The New York Times From ACM News | December 4, 2018
The world's leading technology companies, from Google to Alibaba in China, are racing to build the first quantum computer, a machine that would be far more powerful...The New York Times From ACM News | December 4, 2018
Adaptive driving beam headlights are not currently permitted in the U.S., but that could soon change.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2018
Jouarre, a nursing facility outside Paris, is using a robot to help care for elderly patients.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2018
In response to the diminishing supply of immigrant labor, the U.S. agriculture sector is increasingly turning to robots that can do the work traditionally done...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2018
After 30 hours of bumping along on planes and buses, at long last I stood in the darkness and gazed upon an immense night sky.
The New York Times From ACM News | November 14, 2018
The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling...The New York Times From ACM News | October 23, 2018
Among some astronomers, there is a growing suspicion that our solar system's distant reaches conceal a large, ninth planet that we have not yet seen. New findings...The New York Times From ACM News | October 4, 2018
Hidden pyramids and massive fortresses in the jungle. Farms and canals scattered across swamplands.
The New York Times From ACM News | September 28, 2018
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is exploring Ryugu, an asteroid thought to contain water ice and other materials from the early solar system.
The New York Times From ACM News | September 20, 2018