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.
Energy developers want to build a ton of wind and solar — they just can't get it connected to the grid.
The Washington Post From ACM News | December 20, 2022
Warehouse robots increasingly are able to grasp and sort objects of various shapes and sizes with the dexterity of human hands.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2022
The lawsuit marks FTC chair Lina Khan's most significant effort to date to address tech industry consolidation, and it could upend Microsoft's gaming ambitions....The Washington Post From ACM News | December 8, 2022
16 major domestic airports are testing facial recognition tech to verify IDs — and it could go nationwide in 2023.
The Washington Post From ACM News | December 5, 2022
Researchers worry these systems produce images that can cause a range of harms, such as reinforcing racial and gender stereotypes or plagiarizing artists without...The Washington Post From ACM News | October 3, 2022
Meet Flippy, Sippy and Chippy, the newest technology stepping in to address a protracted labor crunch in food service.
The Washington Post From ACM News | September 20, 2022
Searchers, beware: That Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo ad might be 'malvertising'—phishing campaigns and malware hiding behind legit-looking links.
The Washington Post From ACM News | September 16, 2022
A mobile robot balance assistant developed by scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University can anticipate and catch seniors before they fall.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2022
Under the pilot program, campaigns would be able to circumvent algorithmic sorting by tech companies that at times sends their emails to spam.
The Washington Post From ACM News | August 12, 2022
Photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram has started using age verification tools to prevent account holders under 18 years old from changing their ages to over...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | June 24, 2022
Researchers at Israeli artificial intelligence company AI21 Labs have developed and released an AI model of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2022
Regulators released the first batch of data since mandating that companies such as Tesla report on serious crashes involving their driver-assistance systems.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 15, 2022
AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 13, 2022