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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


Digital Twinning
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Digital Twinning

Many organizations using the Internet of Things have already implemented Digital Twins.

How Universities Deploy Student Data
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How Universities Deploy Student Data

Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.

Digital Transformation: A Business Imperative
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Digital Transformation: A Business Imperative

Advancing to Digital 2.0 can help the modern company anticipate the needs of the customer.

Viewing the Web Through Colorblind Eyes
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Viewing the Web Through Colorblind Eyes

How Web designers develop sites to ensure the colorblind can perceive them.

Collaborating with Robots
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Collaborating with Robots

The challenge of cobots in the workplace.

Exoskeletons Today
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Exoskeletons Today

Wearable mobile machines integrate people and machines to assist the movement-impaired, and amplify the capabilities of industrial and defense workers while protecting...

Eyes in the Skies
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Eyes in the Skies

Privacy concerns arise around the New York Police Department's drone program.  

The Dangers of Automating Social Programs
From Communications of the ACM

The Dangers of Automating Social Programs

Is it possible to keep bias out of a social program driven by one or more algorithms?

Software Without Coding
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Software Without Coding

"Citizen Developers" can create new applications via low-code development.

The State of Fakery
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The State of Fakery

How digital media could be authenticated, from computational, legal, and ethical points of view.

Overcoming Disabilities
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Overcoming Disabilities

Brain-computer interfaces hold the promise of fully featured replacements for body parts that don't work or are missing.

Supercomputing in Space
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Supercomputing in Space

Off-the-shelf computer components were hardened to the extremes of space with layers of "detection, correction, and protection."

Will Quantum Computers Surpass Encryption?
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Will Quantum Computers Surpass Encryption?

The fundamentally different paradigm of quantum computation will require fundamentally different security.

Your Virtual Robot Assistant
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Your Virtual Robot Assistant

With its "unique capabilities," virtual "James" is designed to interact with people regarding the delivery of a service.

Hacker-Proof Coding
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Hacker-Proof Coding

Software verification helps find the faults, preventing hacks.

Combating Cancer With Data
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Combating Cancer With Data

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

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

An out-of-the-box solution to infrastructure is drawing increasing attention.

Computing the Arts
From Communications of the ACM

Computing the Arts

Artists can use software to create art, and some software creates art all on its own.

How AI Is Changing Software Development
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How AI Is Changing Software Development

Artificial intelligence technologies like advanced machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing will help build better software faster.

The 'smart City' Is Increasingly Global
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The 'smart City' Is Increasingly Global

Municipalities all over the world are building greater intelligence into their infrastructures.
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