By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems…
From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2012
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2012
Salvatore Torquato’s unique space-packing method has implications in information theory and materials science.Neil Savage From ACM News | November 1, 2011
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2011
A Canadian company developing a quantum computer made news in May when it sold a system to defense manufacturer Lockheed-Martin for $10 million, though skeptics...Neil Savage From ACM News | August 2, 2011
While current expert-finding methods provided the best expert in six out of 10 searches, a new user-oriented method finds the best one nine times out of 10, according...Neil Savage From ACM News | April 26, 2011
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
Researchers are mining Twitter's vast flow of data to measure public sentiment, follow political activity, and detect earthquakes and flu outbreaks.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2011
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's decision to open frequencies in the broadcast spectrum could enable broadband networks in rural areas, permit smart...Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2010
Sensor-equipped bicycles are providing valuable data to cyclists, city planners, and computer scientists.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2010
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2010
If search engines can extract more meaning from text and better understand what people are looking for, the Web's resources could be accessed more effectively.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2010