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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It's Time to Dump Moore's Law to Advance Computing, Researcher Says
R. Stanley Williams, a senior fellow at Hewlett Packard Labs, proposes no longer following Moore's Law in chipmaking, saying in a recent research paper that the...
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AI Player Alphago to Play Chinese Go Champion
DeepMind's Go-playing artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in May will play against top Chinese Go player Ke Jie in a three-game match in China.
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Computer Crashes May Be Due to Forces Beyond Our Solar System
Vanderbilt University professor Bharat Bhuva on Friday gave a presentation on single-event upsets at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement...
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Ibm's Hub For Wearables Could Have You Out of the Hospital Faster
IBM Research scientists have created a device that siphons health data from multiple wearable devices and shares the results with a patient's doctor.
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Intel Researches Tech to Prepare For a Future Beyond Today's Pcs
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says his company is investigating and investing in technologies that promise to transcend the computing capabilities of current PCs and...
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Will AI sher in a New Era of Hacking?
Advanced artificial intelligence systems developed to defend assets in cyberspace might be turned to malevolent purposes by cybercriminals.
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Japan Aims For Superefficient Supercomputer By 2017
Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology plans to build a super-efficient supercomputer.
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Research Chip Modeled After the Brain Aims to Bring Smarts to Computers
University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers have developed a neuromorphic chip designed for intelligent computers that are structured to discover patterns through...
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Researchers Make Progress Toward Computer Video Recognition
Google researchers are working to advance video-recognition technology, which Rajat Monga on Google's Brain team says is due to progress in deep-learning models...
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Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different
Google chief Internet evangelist and former ACM president Vint Cerf said he would change a few things about the Internet's creation if he could do it over again...
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.s. Says Transfer of Internet Governance Will Go Ahead on Oct. 1
The U.S. will move forward with its plan to transfer governance of the Internet domain name system to a multi-stakeholder entity on Oct. 1.
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.s. Pumps $400 Million Into Next-Generation Wireless Research
The U.S. National Science Foundation will invest more than $400 million over the next seven years to fund next-generation wireless research.
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Eu Plans $2b Investment in Cybersecurity Research
The European Union is contributing $500 million to fund research into cybersecurity, and is asking the private sector to contribute an additional $1.5 billion.
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Disposable Robots Can Sprint, Fly, and Potentially Save Lives
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are developing inexpensive mini-robots that can run, climb, fly, and communicate with emergency personnel....
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Hpe Shows Off a Computer Intended to Emulate the Human Brain
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is showing off a prototype computer designed to imitate the parallelism of the human brain using circuit boards and memory chips.
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Shoot an Atom Into Silicon, and You May Have the Beginnings of a Quantum Computer
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories say they have devised a possible first step toward the creation of a practical quantum computer.
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How Toy Street Lamps Are Shedding New Light on Quantum Computing
The bulbs from toy street lamps, among other things, are helping to reveal new insights into quantum computing.
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Not Lost in Translation: Researchers 'teach' Computers to Translate Accurately
Scientists are seeking to improve the capabilities of online translation programs by embedding new artificial intelligence methods to build complete sentences.
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Diamonds May Be Quantum Computing's Best Friend
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new approach to maintaining quantum superposition using synthetic diamonds.
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