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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.
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...The Guardian From ACM News | February 16, 2016
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).Nautilus From ACM Opinion | February 9, 2016
Researchers interviewed 10 women who successfully transitioned into university faculty after working as corporate scientists or industry or government researchers...W Today From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2016
Researchers are developing new software that can predict, simulate, and analyze a major disease outbreak in the form of an intuitive, multiplayer game.Colorado State niversity From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2016
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. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | January 29, 2016
ACM sent more than 1,800 news abstracts to around 100,000 of its members last year via email, in the form of TechNews.Lawrence M. Fisher From ACM News | January 28, 2016
Autobahn is an artificial intelligence system that can use Google Street View images to optimize a driving route for a particular type of scenery. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 27, 2016
Computer scientist John Tromp has discovered the total number of legal positions on Go's standard 19x19 board. Motherboard From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2016
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.Wired From ACM News | January 21, 2016
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...Wired From ACM News | January 14, 2016
Award-winning animator and filmmaker Chris Landreth serves as distinguished research artist-in-residence at the University of Toronto's computer science department... of T News From ACM TechNews | January 14, 2016
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...Technology Review From ACM News | January 13, 2016
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...Wired From ACM News | January 8, 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...Technology Review From ACM News | December 28, 2015
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2016