Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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.
From ACM TechNews
Computer Helps Msu Researchers nravel Plants' Secrets to Survival
Michigan State University scientists are using artificial intelligence to gain a better understanding of how plants cope with extreme environments.
From ACM TechNews
Quantum Computing: Federal Researchers Take One Step Closer
U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology researchers have achieved the lowest error rate to date for quantum information processing in an experiment...
From ACM Careers
Apple's Design Wizard Has Not Left the Building
He was the resident wizard at 1 Infinite Loop, the guy sporting minimalist attire, closely cropped hair and a mischievous smile as he pulled one delightful new...
From ACM News
Matching Images of Brain Activity with Complex Thought
Can you get a text output of your thoughts? Princeton scientists show that it is possible to generate text about the mental content reflected in brain images.
From ACM News
Household Robots Move from Science Fiction to Reality
Rosie the Robot could finally be coming to your home. Willow Garage, a startup in Menlo Park, has designed a robot called the PR2 that calls to mind the Jetsons'...
From ACM TechNews
Online Activity Grows in a Similar Pattern to Those of Real-Life Networks
Accelerating growth patterns appear in the virtual world, according to Lingfei Wu, a researcher at the City University of Hong Kong.
From ACM TechNews
Flash Memory That'll Keep on Shrinking
Researchers at UCLA and Samsung have developed a type of flash memory that uses graphene and silicon to store information. The researchers say the use of graphene...
From ACM TechNews
Profiler at the Cellular Level
Researchers at ETH Zurich and MIT have developed a diagnostic biological computer in human cells that can recognize certain cancer cells using logic combinations...
From ACM TechNews
Quantum Computer Chips Pass Key Milestones
University of California, Santa Barbara researchers have developed a quantum computer design based on superconducting electrical circuits that adds a more sustainable...
From ACM TechNews
Robots Learn to Handle Objects, Understand New Places
A team from Cornell University's Personal Robotics Laboratory is teaching a robot to find its way around new environments and manipulate objects, and machine learning...
From ACM Opinion
The Calm Before the Storm
Revelations of wholesale electronic fraud and massive data heists have become weekly, even daily affairs.
From ACM News
An Open Secret: Drone Warfare In Pakistan
Drone warfare is now one of the most fundamental features of the U.S. battle against its enemies. Just don't ask anyone in the government to talk about it.
From ACM News
How 9/11 Inspired a New Era of Robotics
When Robin Murphy saw the World Trade Center towers fall on September 11, she knew of an unexpected group that could help respond: robots.
From ACM News
Science After 9/11: How Research Was Changed By the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
New work in forensics, biodefense and cyber security blossomed after the attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and in the skies over Pennsylvania, but increased...
From ACM TechNews
Chatty Robots Go Viral on Youtube
Cornell University students have used a Web-based chatbot called Cleverbot to set up an online chat between two robots, one male and one female.
From ACM TechNews
Flexible Electronics Hold Promise
A team from Wake Forest University, working with interdisciplinary collaborators from Stanford University, Imperial College London, the University of Kentucky,...
From ACM TechNews
Need for Speed
University of Delaware professor Xiaoming Li is working to improve computer optimization, with the main performance issue now being to help a multitude of threads...
From ACM TechNews
Nih Research Model Predicts Weight With Varying Diet, Exercise Changes
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have developed a computer simulation of metabolism that enables scientists to better understand how diet and...
From ACM Careers
For Software Developers, A Bounty Of Opportunity
As people across the country suffer from long-term unemployment, the tech industry is experiencing a shortage of qualified workers. Particularly in software development...
From ACM News