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Three ICPC Finalists and the Tech Gender Gap
Three female participants of the 2017 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals consider their role in the… From ACM NewsAn 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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Scientists Build DNA from Scratch to Alter Life's Blueprint
At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.
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CPU Architecture After Moore's Law: What's Next?
Views differ on how central-processing unit architecture will proceed as Moore's Law becomes increasingly irrelevant.
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Five Times the Computing Power
Researchers have developed a method to increase by the computing power of a standard algorithm when performed on a field-programmable gate array.
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UCLA Research Offers Clearest Evidence of Long-Sought Majorana Particle
A research team has uncovered evidence for the existence of the Majorana particle.
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For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese
Researchers often call 2017 the year of the conversational computer in China.
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The Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed With YouTube
Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none. Hence the tantrums and absurd demands.
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Smart Contact Lenses and Eye Implants Will Give Doctors Medical Insights
Poets say the eyes are a window to the soul. But biomedical engineers are using the eyes to gain insight into the body.
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New Camera Designed by Stanford Researchers Could Improve Robot Vision and Virtual Reality
A new four-dimensional camera captures almost 140 degrees of information, with implications for robot visual perception and virtual reality.
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The Rise of AI Is Forcing Google and Microsoft to Become Chipmakers
By now our future is clear: We are to be cared for, entertained, and monetized by artificial intelligence.
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Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding—so far—that the planet's magnetic...
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Level Up: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...
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DARPA Calls for Post-Moore Ideas
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Electronics Resurgence Initiative aims to cultivate partnerships and advance progress of post-Moore's Law technologies...
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Who Will Control the Swarm?
Researchers at Stanford University believe future device swarms will operate via centralized management.
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Bikes May Have to Talk to Self-Driving Cars for Safety's Sake
Researchers envision bicycles communicating with autonomous vehicles so the latter can predict cyclists' movements.
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IARPA Announces Map of the World Challenge for Satellite Imagery
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched the functional Map of the World Challenge.
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Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...
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How Checkers Was Solved
The story of a duel between two men, one who dies, and the nature of the quest to build artificial intelligence.
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From Mars Rover: Panorama Above 'Perseverance Valley'
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner slope of a large...
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We Could Build a Galactic Internet but It May Take 300,000 Years
If there are advanced alien civilizations in the Milky Way, we ought to be thinking about how to say hello to our neighbours.
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