acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

Meet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the Robot that Killed the Dallas Shooter
From ACM Careers

Meet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the Robot that Killed the Dallas Shooter

Much has been made of the fact that Dallas police used a robot to kill the gunman who fatally shot five officers last week.

Nasa's Bold Bet on Juno Will Pay Off. Stay Tuned.
From ACM News

Nasa's Bold Bet on Juno Will Pay Off. Stay Tuned.

Memory-foam mattresses. The breathing devices firefighters wear. And infrared ear thermometers that give near-instant readings.

Silk-Based Tissue Chip Provides Promise for Drug Testing and Implantable Devices
From ACM Careers

Silk-Based Tissue Chip Provides Promise for Drug Testing and Implantable Devices

Researchers have created a new type of tissue chip that can better represent human tissues compared with current chips, and can be more widely used for drug testing...

How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas
From ACM News

How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas

As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...

Robot Helps Study How First Land Animals Moved 360 Million Years Ago
From ACM Careers

Robot Helps Study How First Land Animals Moved 360 Million Years Ago

A study on how early terrestrial animals began moving on mud and sand 360 million years ago could help designers create amphibious robots able to move across granular...

­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History
From ACM News

­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History

For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.

Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
From ACM Careers

Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature

Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semiautonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers...

Hacking a Desktop Printer to Make Batteries and Circuits
From ACM Careers

Hacking a Desktop Printer to Make Batteries and Circuits

Under a bench at Sang-Young Lee’s lab is an ordinary, somewhat beat-up ink-jet printer he has modified so that it spits out electronic circuits and a type of energy...

How Today's Farmers Got a Head-Start on Tomorrow's Tech
From ACM News

How Today's Farmers Got a Head-Start on Tomorrow's Tech

Cory Anstey always wanted to be a farmer. It was the joy of riding in the tractor, "the smell of the dirt in the spring" that drew him to the fields.

Why Tech Support Is (purposely) Unbearable
From ACM Careers

Why Tech Support Is (purposely) Unbearable

You may consider yourself even-keeled, the kind of person who is unflappable when those around you are losing their cool. But all that goes out the window when...

Google's Deepmind AI to ­se 1 Million Nhs Eye Scans to Spot Diseases Earlier
From ACM Careers

Google's Deepmind AI to ­se 1 Million Nhs Eye Scans to Spot Diseases Earlier

Google's DeepMind division has announced a partnership with the NHS's Moorfields Eye Hospital to apply machine learning to spot common eye diseases earlier.

2-D Nanomaterials ­nlock Graphene Electronics Applications
From ACM Careers

2-D Nanomaterials ­nlock Graphene Electronics Applications

Researchers used three different two-dimensional (2-D) materials to construct a voltage-controlled oscillator device that operates at room temperature. The technology...

Darpa Goes Full Tron With Its Grand Battle of the Hack Bots
From ACM Careers

Darpa Goes Full Tron With Its Grand Battle of the Hack Bots

On a giant flat-screen TV in an old Emeryville, California warehouse, a floating orb fires red, blue, pink, and yellow beams into a honeycomb of hexagonal blocks...

Nasa Will Pay You $1.5 Million to Build the Next Rover
From ACM Careers

Nasa Will Pay You $1.5 Million to Build the Next Rover

In June, NASA invited a small horde of robots and their makers to Massachusetts to compete for a chance to win as much as $1.5 million.

Expert: Tesla Driverless Car Death Not Surprising, Expect More
From ACM Careers

Expert: Tesla Driverless Car Death Not Surprising, Expect More

The number of fatalities associated with autonomous systems such as driverless cars will increase as more are used, says automation expert Timothy Carone of the...

How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race
From ACM News

How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race

An Amazon warehouse is a flurry of activity.

Europe Will Spend €1 Billion to Turn Quantum Physics Into Quantum Technology
From ACM Careers

Europe Will Spend €1 Billion to Turn Quantum Physics Into Quantum Technology

European quantum physicists have done some amazing things over the past few decades: sent single photons to Earth orbit and back, created quantum bits that will...

Bridge to Coveted Electronic Properties
From ACM Careers

Bridge to Coveted Electronic Properties

A new tabletop laser system achieves sought-after energies needed for advanced characterization of electronic properties with unprecedented precision and range.

Intel Outside as Other Companies Prosper from AI Chips
From ACM Careers

Intel Outside as Other Companies Prosper from AI Chips

Back in 1997, Andy Grove, then chief executive officer of Intel, became one of the first corporate titans to embrace the teachings of Harvard Business School professor...

Data Centers Continue to Proliferate While Their Energy ­se Plateaus
From ACM Careers

Data Centers Continue to Proliferate While Their Energy ­se Plateaus

A new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that electricity consumption by data centers in the United States, after rising rapidly for more...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account