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A Stepping Stone to Stem?

Jun 8 2017

Engineering technology courses at community colleges are serving as a pathway to STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) degrees and jobs.

Laura DiDio

The Soft Side of Quantum Computing

A computer science class at Oregon's Clackamas Community College.

Jun 1 2017

Future quantum computers will need software tailored to their specific ways of operating.

Arnout Jaspers

Jun 1 2017

Potential and Peril

The outlook for artificial intelligence-based autonomous weapons.

Sarah Underwood

Optimization Search Finds a Heart of Glass

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots participants, London 2013

Jun 1 2017

Big Data

2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Michael Stonebraker, 2013 ACM Prize recipient David Blei, 2007 ACM Prize recipient Daphne Koller, and ACM Fellow Vipin Kumar discuss trends in big data.

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

David Blei, Daphne Koller, Vipin Kumar, and Michael Stonebraker

Jun 1 2017

Weaving the Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a paradigm shift that changed the world with his invention of the World Wide Web, Hypertext Transport Protocol, and Hypertext Markup Language.

Neil Savage

Computing Applications

2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Tim Berners-Lee

Jun 1 2017

Analog computing could provide greater efficiency, improved digital algorithms.

Chris Edwards

Deep Learning Takes on Translation

Jun 1 2017

Improvements in hardware, the availability of massive amounts of data, and algorithmic upgrades are among the factors supporting better machine translation.

Don Monroe

Lawmakers Seek to Expand Repair Options

Deep Learning Takes on Translation, illustration

May 25 2017

End-users want to be able to repair their expensive electronics; manufacturers disagree.

Neil Savage

In Memoriam: Jean E. Sammet 1928-2017

Do-it-yourselfers currently cannot legally repair their electronic devices.

May 23 2017

Sammet was the first female president of ACM, and a pioneer in programming languages.

Lawrence M. Fisher

Computing Applications

May 23 2017

Making Machines Make Sense

Researchers are working to imbue computing devices with sophisticated object recognition and tactile capabilities that could take computer sensing to an entirely new level.

Samuel Greengard

In Memoriam Alain Colmerauer: 1941-2017

A Google algorithm recognizes fruit in a bowl.

May 22 2017

French computer scientist Alain Colmerauer passed away on May 15.

Lawrence M. Fisher

Solid-State Batteries to Support the Growth of Iot

May 18 2017

Compared to lithium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries don't have the potential to burn or explode, and they can recharge via energy harvesting.

R. Colin Johnson

The flat components of a solid-state battery.

May 16 2017

Going Retro With Rube

Old-time machine contest fosters STEM creativity.

Gregory Goth

Down on the Farm with C3po

Part of a 2016 winning entry from first-time participants from the Indian Woods Middle School Overland Park, KS.

May 11 2017

Turning to robots to improve agricultural yields.

Joe Dysart

Computers Tell Smart City Lights What to Do

Girish Chowdhary of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with the TERRA-MEPP agricultural robot.

May 9 2017

Onboard sensors often tell a luminaire to change settings, but sometimes the instructions come from entirely different sources, like IBM's Watson.

Mark Halper

Making Smartphones More Aware

When Watson talks, these lights listen in White Bear Lake.

May 4 2017

The drive to make electronic devices more situationally, contextually aware of their environments.

Samuel Greengard

May 2 2017

Beyond Moore’s Law

Chipmakers are exploring what comes after they reach the predicted limits of integrated circuit density, complexity.

R. Colin Johnson

Combating Cancer With Data

A chart showing an aspect of Moore's Law, how contacted gate pitch has decreased in size even as technology nodes have become smaller.

May 1 2017

Supercomputers will sift massive amounts of data in search of therapies that work.

Esther Shein

May 1 2017

Bionics in Competition

Developers of innovative assistive devices compete as a means of networking with each other.

Keith Kirkpatrick

May 1 2017

The Internet of Things

2009 ACM Prize recipient Eric Brewer, 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Vint Cerf, 2016–2017 Athena Lecturer Jennifer Rexford, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Martin Casado, ACM Fellows Nick Feamster and Jim Kurose, and ACM member George Roussos discuss the Internet of Things.

CACM Staff

Systems and Networking

May 1 2017

Making Chips Smarter

Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are motivating researchers to design and build new chips to support different computing models.

Samuel Greengard

CUNY Tutor Program Highlights Math, CS Careers to NYC Students

Apr 27 2017

A City University of New York program helps public school students learn science and math, and provides them with role models.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Free Quantum Computers Online!

Apr 25 2017

D-Wave and IBM offer access to supercomputing quantum computers in the cloud.

R. Colin Johnson