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.
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved to General Motors' Cruise’s bid to offer a driverless ride-hailing service in San Francisco.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | June 6, 2022
The researchers behind a quantum computer that encodes data in pulses of light have connected it to the Internet and made it available for public use.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2022
An autonomous system can patrol agricultural fields around the clock to drive away birds that feed on the crops.
Washington State University From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2022
The researchers said they found "several out-of-bound read issues when the NAS handler functions read data from outside the Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message."
The Record From ACM News | June 3, 2022
Walmart is expanding its partnership with DroneUp to make drone deliveries available in six more states this year.
CNBC From ACM TechNews | June 2, 2022
A team of Austrian and German scientists has constructed a 16-quantum bit computer that runs error-free calculations.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 1, 2022
Businesses in Singapore increasingly are resorting to robots to help address labor shortages and perform a range of jobs.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | June 1, 2022
The 59th edition of the TOP500 revealed the Frontier system to be the first true exascale machine with an HPL score of 1.102 Exaflop/s.
Top500 From ACM News | May 31, 2022
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Northwestern University scientists have unveiled a smart version of a transient pacemaker, which dissolvesView...Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine From ACM TechNews | May 27, 2022
The researchers implemented two computational gates on fault-tolerant quantum bits, which are necessary for a universal set of gates.
Phys.org From ACM News | May 27, 2022
Uber has rolled out pilot food delivery services that use autonomous vehicles in Santa Monica and West Hollywood, CA.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | May 26, 2022
A 749-gross-ton vessel is the first commercial cargo ship to be navigated entirely by artificial intelligence during a nearly 500-mile, 40-hour journey.
Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | May 25, 2022
Researchers found that a bug in Zyxel firewalls that could enable unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2022
A team of scientists in Japan has developed a multitasking weather sensor that measures rain volumes and wind speeds.
Osaka Metropolitan University (Japan) From ACM TechNews | May 20, 2022
Jack J. Dongarra is the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high-performance...Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2022