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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.
An old aviators' joke goes like this: In the future, airline cockpit crews will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, the dog is there...Wired From ACM News | April 1, 2015
As cars get smarter and creep ever-closer to driving themselves, the software that makes infotainment systems and adaptive cruise control work is becoming as important...Wired From ACM News | March 27, 2015
If NASA plans to send robots to other planets, it's going to need some new designs: ones that are easy to land, easy to move around, and easy to fix.Wired From ACM News | March 5, 2015
In the field of cryptography, a secretly planted "backdoor" that allows eavesdropping on communications is usually a subject of paranoia and dread.Wired From ACM News | February 27, 2015
"What we really need is a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity." It's a sentiment that swells up every few years in the wake of some huge computer intrusion—most...Wired From ACM News | February 25, 2015
A new paper from a team of researchers found it is possible to determine an Android phone's location and movement by monitoring and analyzing its power consumption...Wired News From ACM TechNews | February 23, 2015
Smartphone users might balk at letting a random app like Candy Crush or Shazam track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal...Wired From ACM News | February 20, 2015
When Andrew Ng trained Google's army of computers to identify cat videos using artificial intelligence, he hit a few snags.Wired From ACM News | February 19, 2015
Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for...Wired From ACM News | February 12, 2015
Memex is a search engine under development that is being designed to access the Dark Web to help law enforcement track illegal activity. Wired News From ACM TechNews | February 11, 2015
A new search engine being developed by Darpa aims to shine a light on the dark web and uncover patterns and relationships in online data to help law enforcement...Wired From ACM News | February 11, 2015
After the Stuxnet digital weapon was discovered on machines in Iran in 2010, many security researchers warned that US adversaries would learn from this and other...Wired From ACM News | February 10, 2015
Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door's height, instead of right in the middle? Or why a washing machine is...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2015
It's the end of October, when the days have already grown short in Redmond, Washington, and gray sheets of rain are just beginning to let up.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 21, 2015
A new patent application titled Planar Waveguide Apparatus with Diffraction Element(s) and System Employing Same sounds like a scientific snoozefest, but just also...Wired From ACM Careers | January 21, 2015
Ross Ulbricht is finally getting his day in court, 15 months after plainclothes FBI agents grabbed him in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2015