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.
From ACM Opinion
Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weeklyinterviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice).
From ACM TechNews
'on-Ramping' Paves the Way For Women Scientists, Engineers to Return to Academia
Researchers interviewed 10 women who successfully transitioned into university faculty after working as corporate scientists or industry or government researchers...
From ACM TechNews
Planning For a Disease Outbreak? There's a Game For That.
Researchers are developing new software that can predict, simulate, and analyze a major disease outbreak in the form of an intuitive, multiplayer game.
From ACM News
If You Go Near the Super Bowl, You Will Be Surveilled Hard
Super Bowl 50 will be big in every way.
From ACM News
Techiest Super Bowl Ever: Silicon Valley's Stadium Girds For the Big Game
Levi's Stadium has been in beta since it opened a year and a half ago.
From ACM TechNews
Alphabet Program Beats the European Human Go Champion
The AlphaGo program beat European Go champion Fan Hui in a series of five matches and achieved a 99.8-percent winning rate against other Go programs.
From ACM News
The Top Technews Stories of 2015
ACM sent more than 1,800 news abstracts to around 100,000 of its members last year via email, in the form of TechNews.
From ACM TechNews
Scenic Sat-Nav Will Take You on the Prettiest Route
Autobahn is an artificial intelligence system that can use Google Street View images to optimize a driving route for a particular type of scenery.
From ACM TechNews
After 2,500 Years, a Chinese Gaming Mystery Is Solved
Computer scientist John Tromp has discovered the total number of legal positions on Go's standard 19x19 board.
From Communications of the ACM
Self-Repair Techniques Point to Robots That Design Themselves
Robots are being taught to brainstorm alternatives when damaged.
From ACM News
Football Coaches Are Turning to AI For Help Calling Plays
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.
From ACM News
The Nfl Is Finally Tapping Into the Power of Data
The NFL may be the most popular and profitable major sport in America, but until recently, it's lagged behind other leagues in sophisticated use of data analysis...
From ACM TechNews
Oscar-Winning Animator and Filmmaker Chris Landreth at of T Computer Science
Award-winning animator and filmmaker Chris Landreth serves as distinguished research artist-in-residence at the University of Toronto's computer science department...
From ACM News
In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...
From ACM News
MIT Researchers Want to Teach Robots How to Wash Dishes
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...
From ACM News
Dancing with Drones
Drones may have a poor reputation as threats to privacy, but they offer a new dimension to dance.
From ACM TechNews
Four Important Things to Expect in Virtual Reality in 2016
Significant virtual reality milestones are expected this year.
From ACM News
Four Important Things to Expect in Virtual Reality in 2016
Virtual reality has grown immensely over the past few years, but 2016 looks like the most important year yet: it will be the first time that consumers can get their...
From Communications of the ACM
Seeing More Clearly
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.
From Communications of the ACM