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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.
Researchers at Denmark's Radboud University have trained a deep convolutional neural network to convert hand-drawn sketches of faces into photorealistic portraits...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2016
Entanglement is the strange phenomenon in which quantum particles become so deeply linked that they share the same existence.Technology Review From ACM News | June 10, 2016
One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.Technology Review From ACM News | June 8, 2016
Mobile phones have revolutionized the way scientists study human behavior, allowing them to watch people on a scale that has never been previously imagined.Technology Review From ACM News | June 6, 2016
The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue.Technology Review From ACM News | May 20, 2016
A treatment now pending approval in Europe will be the first commercial gene therapy to provide an outright cure for a deadly disease.Technology Review From ACM News | May 10, 2016
All kinds of things are hooked up to the Internet these days, but Jerry Chow's computer stands out. Chilled by liquid helium, his superconducting processor uses...Technology Review From ACM News | May 4, 2016
When social-media users upload photographs and caption them, they don't just label their contents. They tell a story, which gives the photos context and additional...Technology Review From ACM News | April 27, 2016
It is easy to take for granted the advancements in our mobile phones, wearable electronics, and other gadgets. But advances in computing rely on processes that...Technology Review From ACM News | April 14, 2016
The ability to reproduce scent artificially is surprisingly complex, and the work of the Weizmann Institute of Science's David Harel sheds light on the issue. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2016
The field of artificial intelligence has experienced a striking spurt of progress in recent years, with software becoming much better at understanding images, speech...Technology Review From ACM News | April 6, 2016
The history of mathematics is in some ways a study of the human mind and how it has understood the world.Technology Review From ACM News | April 4, 2016
University College London lecturer David Silver suggests software similar to Google DeepMind's AlphaGo could be crafted to play poker competently.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2016
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...Technology Review From ACM News | April 1, 2016
Virtual currency could become more viable thanks to a new Bitcoin-like system developed by University College London researchers. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 14, 2016
Ahmad Hassanat from Mu'tah University in Jordan and colleagues have developed a way to distinguish people from the unique way they make the "V for victory" sign...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2016