A new report found that the hardest and perhaps most promising work of deep learning may lie in the realm of robotics,
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2021
An international team of researchers used computer algorithms and x-ray scanning to read a tightly folded letter sealed since 1697, without actually opening it....The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2021
Software engineer Pablo Galindo discusses the challenges of enabling a programming language to grow and evolve without sacrificing backward compatibility.
VentureBeat From ACM News | February 25, 2021
Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2021
A computer simulation developed by Dan Conroy-Beam at the University of California, Santa Barbara offers a framework for evaluating theories of human mate choice...University of California, Santa Barbara From ACM TechNews | February 19, 2021
Simulations of COVID-19 transmission within households conducted by researchers at the University of Haifa found that persons 20 years and younger have less coronavirus...UPI From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2021
A new blockchain platform named Lygon, formed by Australian banks ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and Westpac, IBM, and shopping center company Scentre...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2021
Swiss technology company Terra Quantum said that it used quantum computers to expose vulnerabilities in commonly used encryption, which could threaten the confidentiality...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2021
BleepingComputer has identified a new targeted phishing campaign in which emails pretending to be company invoices use Morse code in an attachment to hide malicious...BleepingComputer From ACM TechNews | February 16, 2021
While recruiters have been using artificial intelligence for the past decade, the technology has been greatly refined in recent years.
BBC News From ACM News | February 12, 2021
The first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer was introduced to the world on Valentine’s Day in 1946.
Samuel Greengard Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | February 11, 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
Attackers are exploiting the same types of software vulnerabilities over and over again, because companies often miss the forest for the trees
MIT Technology Review From ACM News | February 3, 2021
China continues to be the biggest market for industrial robots, even though the market’s growth had been slowing prior to the pandemic, due to the U.S.-China trade...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 27, 2021
Ethical-source leaders are trying to find more support for their open-source approach by creating the Organization for Ethical Source.
From ACM News | January 26, 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