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 News
It Started Digital Wheels Turning
Researchers in Britain are about to embark on a 10-year, multimillion-dollar project to build a computer—but their goal is neither dazzling analytical power nor...
From ACM News
Researchers High On Cloud Robotics
The goal of cloud robotics is to enable robots to perform data-intensive functions, like image processing and voice recognition, by offloading the vast amounts...
From ACM TechNews
Socialbots Used By Researchers to 'steal' Facebook Data
University of British Columbia researchers were able to collect 46,500 email addresses and 14,500 home addresses from Facebook by using socialbots.
From ACM News
Inventing the Future of Computing
As researchers confidently predict a future of faster-than-ever transformations in computing, they are creating chips that learn and respond as they gain experience...
From ACM TechNews
3D Chips: The Next Electronics Revolution
The semiconductor industry is moving toward three-dimensional (3D) chip design, stacking dies and moving data from one layer to another.
From ACM News
Japan Pushes World's Fastest Computer Past 10 Petaflop Barrier
The Japanese have broken the 10 petaflop barrier. On Wednesday, Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab announced the supercomputer...
From ACM News
H.p. Builds Servers With Cellphone Chips
Hewlett-Packard announced on Tuesday a new design for some of the world's largest computer centers and says it could reduce power consumption in some cases by...
From ACM TechNews
Pivoting Pixels
National Chiao Tung University researchers have developed a method for using micro-electromechanical systems to create mechanical pixels for computerized displays...
From ACM News
Headless, Humanoid Robot Preps For Army Duty
Sauntering toward you like a mechanized zombie is the Army’s newest recruit: a robot with a blinking red light where its head should be.
From ACM TechNews
Researchers Create Transistors From Natural Cotton Fibers
Cornell University professor Juan Hinestroza was part of an international team that recently developed transistors using natural cotton fibers.
From ACM News
In Surprise, China nveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips
China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States...
From ACM News
The Making of Arduino
How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm.
From ACM Opinion
The Genius of Jobs
One of the questions I wrestled with when writing about Steve Jobs was how smart he was. On the surface, this should not have been much of an issue.
From ACM TechNews
Can Software Patch the Ailing Power Grid?
A consortium providing the technology for a large-scale smart grid project says the software is nearly complete.
From ACM TechNews
Quantum Hackers: Cracking the ncrackable Code
Norwegian University of Science and Technology researcher Vadim Makarov has developed a quantum cryptography method to defend against attacks of quantum key distribution...
From ACM TechNews
Science Fiction-Style Sabotage a Fear in New Hacks
The U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a nonprofit group that helps the U.S. government identify vulnerabilities for cyberattacks, has replicated the recent attack that...
From ACM News
John Rogers's Bendable Microprocessors
John Rogers was in his lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign six years ago, testing new ways to make electronic circuits, when one of his team...
From ACM News
Future Computers Could Rewire Themselves
Future microchips may have only one type of component, capable of rewiring itself to do different jobs. Researchers from Northwestern University in the U.S. have...
From ACM TechNews
Top 'innovators' Rank Low in R&d Spending
Many companies are devoted to innovation but they tend to have little to show for their spending on research and development, according to a new Booz & Co. report...
From ACM TechNews