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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Water Filter Inspired by Alan Turing Passes First Test
Researchers in China have developed a filter that removes salt from water up to three times as fast as conventional filters. The membrane has a unique nanostructure...
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Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors
A coalition of Silicon Valley tech giants has doubled down on its criticism of encryption backdoors following a proposal that would give law enforcement access...
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NASA's Swarmathon Improves Student Skills in Robotics, Computer Science
College and university students recently participated in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's third annual Swarmathon, a robotic programming competition...
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Smart Skin for Flexible Monitoring
Marine Skin is a new smart patch that could be used to electronically tag marine animals.
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The Unhackable Envelope
Researchers have developed an envelope for hardware security modules that requires no battery and cannot be broken into without deleting its stored data.
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AI To Help Soldiers Learn Faster in Combat
A low-cost, lightweight hardware system can help soldiers learn more than 13 times faster than conventional methods.
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'Smart' Dresser Prototype Guides People With Dementia in Getting Dressed
Researchers have created an intelligent dressing system that integrates automated tracking and recognition with guided assistance.
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Editing Memories and Sensations in the Brain With Tech
What if we had the ability to fool our brain into thinking that we'd experienced something that never happened?
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GRACE-FO: Cracking a Cold Case
Reports of the rapidly melting West Antarctic ice sheet often refer to how much the melting could add to global sea levels—as if meltwater raises the ocean evenly...
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Facebook Helped Create an AI Scavenger Hunt that Could Lead to the First Useful Home Robots
Artificial-intelligence programs could develop some much-needed common sense by competing in scavenger hunts inside virtual homes filled with simulated coffee tables...
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Apps for Children Should Emphasize Parent and Child Choice, Researchers Say
Preschoolers can benefit from using electronic devices with thoughtfully designed content that intentionally supports parent-child interactions, according to researchers...
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Rice U. Turns Deep-Learning AI Loose on Software Development
Rice University researchers have invented a deep learning software coding application to help programmers navigate growing numbers of application programming interfaces...
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What's Behind Russia's New Internet Crackdown
China has its own great firewall. Turkey has been blocking swaths of the internet, including YouTube, for at least a decade.
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Scholar Uses Algorithm to Make Christmas Tree Farming More Efficient
A Penn State University researcher has developed an algorithm to analyze and store images of Christmas tree farms taken by unmanned aircraft.
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Dim Prospects for Junior Developers
Employers prefer experience for even entry-level coding positions.
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New Material Is Key Step Toward More Powerful Computing
Oregon State University researchers have developed a compound that constitutes a significant advance toward quantum computing.
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Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War?
Some movies are obvious hits. Like, for example, Avengers: Infinity War, which made a record-breaking $258 million at the domestic box office last weekend, filling...
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ACM Recognizes Innovators Who Have Shaped the Digital Revolution
Award recipients made contributions in areas including open source software, biotechnology, networks, and artificial intelligence.
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Virtual-Reality Applications Give Science a New Dimension
As I put on a virtual-reality (VR) headset, the outside world disappears.
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