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.
A three-dimensional printing method developed by scientists at Japan's Osaka University can embed edible quick response codes inside food.
AlphaGalileo From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2022
A new machine learning algorithm aims to improve the diagnosis of people with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign From ACM TechNews | October 18, 2022
A new study found that the risk of certain common chronic diseases can be lowered with the use of a wearable activity tracker.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2022
Telescope uses machine-learning algorithm to identify a sample of 5,000 candidates of gravitational lenses from tens of millions of galaxy images.
Space.com From ACM TechNews | October 11, 2022
Dartmouth College researchers used data from FitBit users to determine that exercise could be optimized to improve mental and cognitive health.
SciTechDaily From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2022
Wegmans has discontinued the self-checkout SCAN app it rolled out early in the pandemic to offer contactless shopping, citing losses tied to the app.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2022
A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors to identify periods of high danger...The New York Times From ACM News | October 4, 2022
The company's new smart gadget uses radar to track your breathing while you sleep. It's part of Amazon's plan to weave its products invisibly into your life.
Wired From ACM News | October 4, 2022
Analysts at Securonix discovered the attacks but couldn't attribute the campaign to any known threat actors, despite some similarities to past APT37 (Konni) attacks...BleepingComputer From ACM News | September 29, 2022
Volvo Cars will soon become the first automaker to install laser-based sensors across its entire fleet.
Financial Times From ACM TechNews | September 29, 2022
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers created the CSVDriver software to identify cancer-generating structural variants from tumor samples via DNA sequence analysis...Weill Cornell Medicine Newsroom From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2022
Microsoft chief science officer Eric Horvitz said the rising capabilities of discriminative and generative artificial intelligence methods are reaching an inflection...VentureBeat From ACM News | September 29, 2022
A reporter and a photographer went for a ride in an experimental autonomous vehicle operated by the General Motors subsidiary Cruise. There were bumps in the road...The New York Times From ACM News | September 29, 2022
Researchers have developed software to prevent whale deaths caused by underwater noise pollution interfering with their echolocation.
CNN From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed a battery-free, wireless underwater camera.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2022
Adam Day at U.K.-based data services company Clear Skies developed a software tool that highlights potentially bogus scientific papers.
Nature From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2022
Independent website Alt News has emerged as a leading debunker of misinformation in India, but highlighting hate speech against minorities has put it on a collision...The New York Times From ACM News | September 28, 2022
Physicists have taken a step toward realizing a scalable quantum computer by transferring electrons across several micrometers on a quantum chip.
Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2022
Major data gaps, the result of decades of underinvestment in public health, have undercut the government response to the coronavirus, and now to monkeypox.
The New York Times From ACM News | September 21, 2022