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 virtual reality test can be used to assess an individual's functional cognition, and eventually may be used to test for age-related cognitive decline.
King's College London (U.K.) News Center From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2022
India's Stellapps Technologies has come up with what CEO Ranjith Mukundan describes as "a device which is like a Fitbit for cattle."
CNN Business From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2022
Using ultrathin materials to reduce the size of superconducting qubits may pave the way for personal-sized quantum devices.
SciTechDaily From ACM News | February 3, 2022
The agencies also announced U.S. plans to participate in World Quantum Day, an international event to be held on April 14.
Quantum Computing Report From ACM News | February 3, 2022
Akamai researchers found as many as 277,000 routers capable of the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) connectivity protocol vulnerable to "Eternal Silence" attacks.... From ACM TechNews | February 3, 2022
Physicists have proposed a new scalable quantum computing architecture using trapped ions.
University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2022
Six 7-Eleven stores in Tokyo, Japan, will soon feature floating holographic displays that will allow customers to check out without any physical contact.
Gizmodo From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2022
A machine learning framework developed by researchers at the University of Maryland aims to accelerate the design of soft machines.
University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2022
A multi-institutional team of researchers has demonstrated that phonons contribute to superconductivity in copper-based materials.
SciTechDaily From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2022
Chip designer Arm has released a prototype development board based on the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) architecture.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2022
Researchers developed a technique that creates a "fingerprint" of noise on a quantum computer, as seen by a simulation running on the machine.
University of Chicago News From ACM TechNews | January 27, 2022
A war game and study by a think tank illustrate how dependent the world is on Taiwan's semiconductor foundries.
The New York Times From ACM News | January 27, 2022
This is the first global standard to measure and verify supplier strust, and to protect digital infrastructure.
Telecommunications Industry Association From ACM News | January 26, 2022
Seoul-based news site NK Pro reported that log files and network records showed Websites on North Korean Web domains were largely unreachable.
Reuters From ACM News | January 26, 2022
Major League Baseball is extending its automated strike zone test to Triple-A, the highest minor-league level, for 2022.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2022
IBM researchers doubled the size of quantum simulations while halving the number of quantum bits required, via a method called entanglement forging.
Silicon Republic From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2022
Twist is an MIT-developed programming language that can describe and verify which pieces of data are entangled to prevent bugs in a quantum program.
MIT News From ACM News | January 25, 2022