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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Dead Languages Come to Life
Artificial intelligence automates the translation of extinct languages.
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Augmented Reality Gets Real
Formidable optical challenges are yielding to intensive research, development.
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Lifelong Learning in Artificial Neural Networks
New methods enable systems to rapidly, continuously adapt.
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You've Got Mail!
And that's not all. Email is not what it used to be.
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Artificial Intelligence Poised to Ride a New Wave
Flush with recent successes, and pushed by even newer technology, AI systems could get much smarter.
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Scientists Update Views of Light
Experiment sheds new light on wave-particle duality.
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Estonia: A Model For E-Government
Over the next decade, the population of Estonia is expected to soar more than 600% as the country becomes the first in the world to open its borders to an influx...
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Data Brokers Are Watching You
You would be surprised by how much they know about you, and what they are doing with your information.
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Researchers Simplify Parallel Programming
Parallel computing has become increasingly important as chipmakers put more and more processor cores on individual chips.
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French Team Invents Faster Code-Breaking Algorithm
New method can crack certain cryptosystems far faster than earlier alternatives.
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Deep Learning Comes of Age
Advances on multiple fronts are bringing big improvements to the way computers learn, increasing the accuracy of speech and vision systems.
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Zoom In, Zoom Out
Drilling down to more detail on a computer screen, or moving out to see the context, is basic. But it's hardly simple and, after 20 years, innovations are still...
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Chips Go Upscale
After decades in Flatland, the end of Moore's Law is pushing semiconductors into the third dimension.
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HTML5 Leads a Web Revolution
Propelled by a proliferation of mobile devices and social networks, an enhanced family of Web specifications is bringing new power to developers and new capabilities...
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Smarter Photography
Improvements in camera hardware, image processing, camera-photographer interfaces, and image viewing are advancing the state of the art in digital photography.
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Invasion of the Mobile Apps
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
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Beauty and Elegance
Leslie Valiant talks about machine learning; parallel computing, and his quest for simplicity.
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The Quest For Randomness
It's not easy to generate a string of numbers that lack any pattern or rule, or even to define exactly what randomness means.
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ACM Launches New Digital Library
More than 50 years of computing literature is augmented, streamlined, and joined to powerful new tools for retrieval and analysis.
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Nonlinear Systems Made Easy
Pablo Parrilo has discovered a new approach to convex optimization that creates order out of chaos in complex nonlinear systems.12