The U.K. Cyber Security Council aims to serve as a "one-stop shop" for people seeking careers in information security.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | February 25, 2021
Many facial recognition systems used by law enforcement are shot through with biases. Can anything be done to make them fair and trustworthy?
Paul Marks From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2021
Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr., a celebrated American academic who developed methods for mathematically proving the correctness of computer systems, died on December...Simson Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2021
A team of cognitive scientists and computational linguists has developed a modeling framework based on large-scale simulation of infants' language learning process...News-Medical Life Sciences From ACM TechNews | February 5, 2021
The Pentagon is consulting with U.S. universities to evaluate software on aerospace company Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jet in the hope of correcting the buggy...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | February 3, 2021
Charlie Blackwell-Thompson is the first woman to serve as launch director for the U.S. space agency.
Keith Kirkpatrick Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | January 28, 2021
Computer scientists are using generative adversarial networks to train robots about objects.
Texas Advanced Computing Center From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2021
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2021
Computer science concepts have been part of the official English curriculum for over a decade, but reforms have encouraged wider participation in the last six years...Brookings From ACM News | January 22, 2021
Software company Burning Glass Technologies projected quantum computing and connected technologies will be among the 10 most "disruptive" information technology...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 4, 2021
Researchers have developed self-learning algorithms that can help analyze medical image data.
Technical University of Munich (Germany) From ACM TechNews | December 30, 2020
Amazon researcher Aleksander Kubica won the world's first quantum chess tournament during the virtual Practical Quantum Computing (Q2B) conference.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 30, 2020
Some fear artificial intelligence could replace teachers, but it has a long way to go.
Sandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | December 29, 2020
Clarke was best known for his work in model checking, an automated method for detecting design errors in computer hardware and software.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette From ACM News | December 29, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University neuroscientists have found that reading computer code activates different brain regions than reading...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2020
Machine-learning models are trained by low-paid online gig workers. They're not going away—but we can change the way they work, says Saiph Savage.
MIT Technology Review From ACM News | December 17, 2020
Johns Hopkins University scientists mapped computer programmers' brain activity during coding exercises to uncover the underlying neural processes.
News-Medical Life Sciences From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2020
"Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade," a database collecting archives and entries documenting the lives of those who were enslaved, owned slaves, or...Kansas State University From ACM News | December 8, 2020
Mathematicians have added new symbolic integration functionality to the Sage computerized algebra system.
SciTechDaily From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2020