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.
Small-scale CAD/CAM tools are among the high-tech capabilities being added to the arsenals of increasingly digital dentists.
Jake Widman Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | January 5, 2023
Irish privacy regulator tells the Facebook and Instagram owner it can't use its contracts with users to justify sending them such ads.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | January 4, 2023
Researchers at Japan's RIKEN Prediction Science Laboratory applied deep learning to predict the impact of tsunamis in less than a second.
RIKEN (Japan) From ACM TechNews | January 3, 2023
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana relied on facial-recognition technology to arrest an alleged purse thief, detaining the wrong person, who is...The Times-Picayune From ACM TechNews | January 3, 2023
Fashion designers in Hong Kong showcased ensembles co-created by the Artificial intelligence-based Interactive Design Assistant (AiDA) at the Fashion X AI show....Reuters From ACM TechNews | January 3, 2023
A new computer-derived marker for coronary artery disease is based on machine learning and clinical data from electronic health records.
News-Medical Life Sciences From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2022
Google has started beta testing hosting of digital driver's licenses and state ID cards for its Wallet application on Android, which will be exclusive to Maryland...TechRadar From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2022
World Wide Web inventor and 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Tim Berners-Lee founded the startup Inrupt with John Bruce to help users reclaim their personal...CNN From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2022
Researchers developed the BreatheSmart algorithm to analyze a person's movements and determine whether they have difficulty breathing via Wi-Fi routers and devices...U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2022
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. "was a statesman in the best sense of the word, as well as a great leader, a very kind man, and a fine engineer," said fellow ACM A.M....Simson Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2023
Computer scientist Valérie Issarny, a director of research at France's National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology and chair of the ACM Europe...John Delaney From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2023
The goal of the $20-million smart intersections project is to have intersections communicate with the technology in cars to warn drivers of potential dangers that...WXYZ From ACM News | December 20, 2022
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
Officials from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's 38 member-states finalized a framework to limit governments' access to citizens' personal...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | December 20, 2022
A computational analysis supports the idea that photons colliding with heavy ions can create a fluid of “strongly interacting” particles.
Brookhaven National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | December 20, 2022
The team says its machine learning model can accurately predict the complex molecular changes that determine a drug's effectiveness.
South China Morning Post From ACM News | December 15, 2022
A multi-institutional team of researchers has devised a framework for analyzing multiancestry genomic studies across multiple biobanks.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center From ACM TechNews | December 15, 2022
Maersk and IBM last month shut down their global platform that was supposed to bring blockchain to the shipping industry. Other big bets are moving slowly.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 15, 2022