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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Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency
Silicon Valley icon Lawrence Lessig knows his moonshot bid for the White House hinges on the innovation and support of the tech industry.
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Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network
Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...
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Apple and Google Know What You Want Before You Do
Apple Inc. and Google Inc. are racing to anticipate the needs of their users.
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Physicists Restart Souped-p Hadron Collider
After a two-year shutdown, the atom-smashing machine known as the Large Hadron Collider has embarked on a renewed quest to probe some of the biggest puzzles about...
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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...
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Moore's Law Is Showing Its Age
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...
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Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...
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Meet the New Generation of Robots For Manufacturing
A new generation of robots is on the way—smarter, more mobile, more collaborative and more adaptable.
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Google's Vint Cerf Warns Against Fragmentation of Internet
Internet pioneer Vinton G. Cerf warned Thursday that political and technological forces threaten universal access and integrity, which he described as the foundation...
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Robots, Hungry for Power, Are Too Weak to Take Over the World
Today's robots may just be too hungry and unfit to take over the world any time soon.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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Ancient Dna Tells a New Human Story
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...
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Brace Yourself: Microsoft Wants to Guess How Old You Are
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...
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IBM Brings Quantum Computing a Step Closer
Researchers at IBM have stitched together a prototype circuit that could become the basis of quantum computers a decade hence.
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In Nato Cyber Wargame, Berlya Fends Off Arch-Enemy Crimsonia
Somewhere near Iceland, a new NATO member, Berlya is under cyber-attack, most likely launched from its arch-rival Crimsonia, although the Berlyans can’t be completely...
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Security Professionals Stymied By Outdated Visualization Tools
Earlier this year, the film Blackhat got high marks for realistic scenes in which hackers and information security specialists work at their computers to hunt down...
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How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues
Workers at a Navistar truck plant in Ohio weren't eager to make friends when a new colleague showed up on the factory floor nearly 40 years ago.
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Will Smart Machines Make S Stupid? AI Experts Weigh In
Society stands at a crossroads of artificial intelligence: We can design computers that sharpen our wits or we can let our machines turn us into ignoramuses.
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