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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.
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 1, 2015
Robots are goosing the productivity of the world's factories, but does that mean fewer jobs for humans?The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 1, 2015
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 1, 2015
Researchers at IBM have stitched together a prototype circuit that could become the basis of quantum computers a decade hence.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 29, 2015
An increasing number of educators and activists are pushing to make programming a part of all children's basic education. The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2015
Somewhere near Iceland, a new NATO member, Berlya is under cyber-attack, most likely launched from its arch-rival Crimsonia, although the Berlyans can’t be completely...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 24, 2015
People's distress over the privacy of their communications has never been more acute. Whether the fear is over U.S. surveillance or breaches by hackers of unknown...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2015
Earlier this year, the film Blackhat got high marks for realistic scenes in which hackers and information security specialists work at their computers to hunt down...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | April 22, 2015
Workers at a Navistar truck plant in Ohio weren't eager to make friends when a new colleague showed up on the factory floor nearly 40 years ago.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 21, 2015
When Sagi Kfir meets people and tells them he is a "space attorney," they usually think he has a strange way of saying he is in real estate.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | March 23, 2015
Society stands at a crossroads of artificial intelligence: We can design computers that sharpen our wits or we can let our machines turn us into ignoramuses.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 19, 2015
Germany's main telco, tech and manufacturing companies have formed an alliance to make sure that when devices do start speaking to each other over the Internet...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 19, 2015
Cybercriminals targeting businesses are stealing more than customer passwords and credit-card numbers these days.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 12, 2015
Smartphones are about to get smarter, chip makers say, exploiting technologies that recognize people, objects and sounds to boost security and take helpful actions...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 2, 2015
Robots are becoming more of a reality in everyday life, and movies have started to overhaul their depiction of them. They're gentler, friendlier, and often better...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | February 27, 2015
Taking a page from Silicon Valley's playbook, the White House said on Wednesday it had appointed the nation's first chief data scientist.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | February 19, 2015
Surgeons sometimes fly blind when operating on hard-to-reach anatomical parts or hard-to-see conditions.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 17, 2015