Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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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.
For companies like the dating site Ashley Madison or the health insurer Anthem, financial loss, customer anger and professional embarrassment aren't the only consequences...Wired From ACM News | August 26, 2015
A new Carnegie Mellon University study suggests law enforcement take-downs of online drug markets have largely failed to dent the traffic in drugs on the Dark Web...Wired From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2015
After more than four years and two giant law enforcement busts, the Dark Web's drug market is still just as robust as it was during the Silk Road's heyday.Wired From ACM News | August 17, 2015
A new software tool is capable of automatically isolating the code of a feature in one program and "transplanting" it into another program.Wired.co.uk From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2015
The next time you press your wireless key fob to unlock your car, if you find that it doesn’t beep until the second try, the issue may not be a technical glitch...Wired From ACM News | August 7, 2015
Researchers discovered Mac computers can be affected by known firmware bugs, and created a proof-of-concept worm. Wired From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2015
After Tuesday's historic agreement between Iran and the "P5+1" group of countries, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will have access to all...Wired From ACM News | July 20, 2015
The debate over encryption and backdoors for law enforcement has long had a surplus of opinions and a deficit of data.Wired From ACM News | July 9, 2015
The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can't be counterfeited.Wired From ACM Careers | June 30, 2015
Facebook and Google are building enormous neural networks—artificial brains—that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos...Wired From ACM News | June 22, 2015
A security researcher kicked off a United Airlines flight last month after tweeting about security vulnerabilities in its system had previously taken control of...Wired From ACM News | May 18, 2015
A note of caution to anyone who works on the security team of a major automobile manufacturer: Don't plan your summer vacation just yet.Wired From ACM News | April 28, 2015
Stony Brook University researchers are developing a prototype tool they believe will be able to send encoded messages using real-time strategy computer games. Wired News From ACM TechNews | April 17, 2015
Seven years after the Federal Aviation Administration first warned Boeing that its new Dreamliner aircraft had a Wi-Fi design that made it vulnerable to hacking...Wired From ACM News | April 15, 2015
Edward Snowden appears to have a thing for the late British conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher. And his obsession may even be clouding his famously paranoid...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2015