Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
From ACM NewsAllyn Jackson Commissioned by CACM Staff| January 31, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed microscopic robots that move by themselves, using an actuator fashioned from a thin layer of platinum.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2020
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a virtual assistant that screens phone calls to block robocallers.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2020
Researchers have created a more complex version of the ancient Chinese board game Go using quantum entanglement.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2020
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China used a single-photon version of LiDAR to remotely capture extremely detailed three-dimensional...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2020
Australia is deploying unmanned robot boats to patrol its waters and monitor weather and wildlife, as well as identifying boats potentially transporting asylum...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2020
George Washington University researchers found apparent racial bias in pricing algorithms used by ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 24, 2020
Researchers have found that data on millions of U.S. voters is being illegally traded on parts of the Internet not searchable using normal means.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 11, 2020
Researchers in China have found that fake news may go viral more quickly when it uses words associated with anger.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 4, 2020
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can identify sea plastic in satellite imagery.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2020
Researchers trained an artificial intelligence system to detect Twitter bots based on differences in the patterns of Tweeting activity of real and fake accounts...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2020
DeepMind researchers used machine learning to simulate how atomic particles in a piece of glass respond to different temperatures and pressures.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2020
GitHub this month plans to add another 100 million folders to its existing cache of the equivalent of 10,000 folders of source code files in Coal Mine 3, a disused...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 3, 2020
Salmon seem to prefer small robots to larger ones, a discovery that could help guide how fish farms are automated.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2020
The U.S. Special Operations Command is developing a portable facial recognition system that can identify individuals from 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) off.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 25, 2020
Washington University researchers converted grasshoppers into bomb-sniffing tools by implanting electrodes in the insects' antenna lobes to tap into the capabilities...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 21, 2020
The Chinese government is working with technology companies to monitor citizens and track confirmed cases of people infected with the coronavirus.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 20, 2020
New software automatically translates a video of a person speaking in one language into another language, while matching their lip movements to the new words.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 29, 2020