The Association for Computing Machinery has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention…
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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.
Cybersecurity specialists are working multiple cases simultaneously and dealing with the resulting stress.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | October 11, 2022
U.S. pharmacy chain Walgreens is deploying robots to fill prescriptions for drugstores amid a nationwide shortage of pharmacists and pharmacist technicians.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2022
New effort is part of trend toward putting more resources to target illegal activities involving digital currencies.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 16, 2022
Sum is only a fraction of hundreds of millions siphoned in breach of 'Axie Infinity' online videogame this year.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 9, 2022
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic warned criminals are increasingly targeting nonfungible tokens (NFTs).
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2022
On Aug. 25, online password manager LastPass reported the theft of some of its source code and proprietary information.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2022
Researchers have identified information-sharing initiatives worldwide that aim to better detect fraud and money laundering.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 2, 2022
Political wrangling slows progress on what began as bipartisan effort to restore America's semiconductor production prowess.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 19, 2022
Artificial intelligence programs that learn to write and speak can sound almost human—but they can't think creatively like a small child can.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 18, 2022
At Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri mine in western Australia, iron ore is hauled by almost two dozen driverless carts, with autonomous water carts used to control dust....The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2022
GitHub Copilot, launched last week, acts like a predictive-text feature to help ease the process of writing long lines of computer code.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 28, 2022
Sweden's autonomous-truck startup Einride AB, working in partnership with GE Appliances, will test self-driving freight vehicles on U.S. roadways .
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | June 27, 2022
Autonomous trucks that mostly stick to highways could make sense, both technologically and economically, in ways robotaxis have not.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 27, 2022
Some firms are running algorithms used for quantum computers on advanced machines for risk analysis and portfolio optimization.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 10, 2022
Intel and TSMC are looking to boost chip output amid supercharged demand, but getting the equipment to do so requires increasing patience.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 4, 2022
Santiago Garces will start as CIO of the New England city in May, following top roles in open-data efforts in South Bend and Pittsburgh.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 29, 2022