Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Helping NASA Return to the Moon
Charlie Blackwell-Thompson is the first woman to serve as launch director for the U.S. space agency.
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How to Train a Robot (Using AI and Supercomputers)
Computer scientists are using generative adversarial networks to train robots about objects.
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Technological Responses to COVID-19
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
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How England Implemented its Computer Science Education Program
Computer science concepts have been part of the official English curriculum for over a decade, but reforms have encouraged wider participation in the last six years...
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10 Most 'Disruptive' IT Jobs in the Year Ahead
Software company Burning Glass Technologies projected quantum computing and connected technologies will be among the 10 most "disruptive" information technology...
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A Quick Look Under the Skin
Researchers have developed self-learning algorithms that can help analyze medical image data.
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First-Ever Quantum Chess Tournament Won by Amazon Researcher
Amazon researcher Aleksander Kubica won the world's first quantum chess tournament during the virtual Practical Quantum Computing (Q2B) conference.
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Adding AI to Education
Some fear artificial intelligence could replace teachers, but it has a long way to go.
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Obituary: Edmund M. Clarke, CMU Professor who Won Computer Science’s Nobel Prize Equivalent
Clarke was best known for his work in model checking, an automated method for detecting design errors in computer hardware and software.
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To the Brain, Reading Computer Code Is Not the Same as Reading Language
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University neuroscientists have found that reading computer code activates different brain regions than reading...
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AI Needs to Face Up to its Invisible-Worker Problem
Machine-learning models are trained by low-paid online gig workers. They're not going away—but we can change the way they work, says Saiph Savage.
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Scientists Decode Neural Mechanisms of Computer Programming
Johns Hopkins University scientists mapped computer programmers' brain activity during coding exercises to uncover the underlying neural processes.
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Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud
Amazon plans to help train 29 million people worldwide to work in the cloud by 2025.
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Computer Science Professor, Postdoc Launch Online Database on History of Slavery
"Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade," a database collecting archives and entries documenting the lives of those who were enslaved, owned slaves, or...
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Mathematicians Apply 19th Century Ideas to Modern Computerized Algebra Systems
Mathematicians have added new symbolic integration functionality to the Sage computerized algebra system.
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Worries of Widespread 'Tech Addiction' May Be Overblown, Says Study
Researchers found a weak relationship between early technology use and later technology use, indicating fears of widespread, long-lasting tech addiction may be...
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IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender...52 Years Later
You've likely never heard of 82-year-old computer scientist Lynn Conway, but her discoveries power your smartphones and computers.
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AI Research Finds 'Compute Divide' Concentrates Power, Accelerates Inequality in Era of Deep Learning
An unequal distribution of compute power in academia is exacerbating inequality in deep learning, say researchers at Virginia Tech and Western University.
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Schools Struggling to Stay Open Get Hit by Ransomware Attacks
Schools struggling to stay open during the Covid-19 pandemic are being targeted by ransomware, as hackers threaten to post sensitive student information online....
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