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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Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Form of Electrons
University of Texas at Austin researchers mapped polarons, quasiparticles consisting of an electron and its surrounding distortions of atoms in a crystal lattice...
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Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery
Finding novel materials needs more than pure machine learning.
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AI Rewrites Coding
Even as software grows increasingly complex, artificial intelligence helps to simplify and automate coding tasks.
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Optical Computing for Object Classification Through Diffusive Random Media
Researchers have developed an all-optical object classification technique that uses diffractive deep neural networks and a single-pixel spectral detector to classify...
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Virtual Influencers in the Real World
We are increasingly engaging with these digital personalities, online and offline.
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How Rust Went from a Side Project to the World's Most-Loved Programming Language
For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.
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Team Refines Precision of Medical Needles in Surgical Simulation
Computationally efficient mathematical models aim to improve the accuracy of flexible medical needles used in surgical simulation without adding unnecessary steps...
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Digital Twin for Intense Weather Gives Scientists 'Control Loop'
Scientists at Cerebras and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory said they can model extreme weather by accelerating field equations...
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Technology Developed to Support Recovering Alcoholics
Technology that measures the presence of alcohol in digital images could help recovering alcoholics evaluate their exposure to alcohol marketing on social media...
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Why the Simplex Method, at Age 75, is Still the Go-To Algorithm
Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis.
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Researchers Discover That Electrons Play a Surprising Role in Heat Transfer Between Layers of Semiconductors
An electronic bridge facilitates the fast transfer of energy between semiconductors.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography
Cryptographers seek algorithms quantum computers cannot break.
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Crypto Meltdown, What Crypto Meltdown?
Despite trillions of dollars of losses, a batch of bankruptcies and one very high profile arrest, blockchain's devotees remain devoted.
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Are We Living in a Computer Simulation, and Can We Hack It?
A popular cosmological theory holds that the cosmos runs on quantum codes. So how hard could it be to tweak the supreme algorithm?
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Inside Intel's Delays in Delivering a Crucial New Microprocessor
The company grappled with missteps for years while developing a microprocessor code-named Sapphire Rapids. It comes out on Tuesday.
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Designing with DNA
An open-source software program developed by researchers at Duke and other universities lets users take drawings or digital models of rounded shapes and turn them...
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The Outlook for Crypto
Can cryptocurrencies cut their environmental impact?
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Particles of Light May Create Fluid Flow, Data-Theory Comparison Suggests
A computational analysis supports the idea that photons colliding with heavy ions can create a fluid of “strongly interacting” particles.
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Detecting Dark Matter With Quantum Computers
A Fermilab scientist developed a way to use qubits to detect single photons produced by dark matter in the presence of a strong magnetic field.
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