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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.


Evolutionary Programming Converts Darwinism Into Algorithms
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Evolutionary Programming Converts Darwinism Into Algorithms

Evolutionary computation strategies include a multitude of biologically inspired algorithms for optimizing problems, often those with too many variables to compare...

Non-Von Neumann Computers Providing Brain-Like Functionality
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Non-Von Neumann Computers Providing Brain-Like Functionality

By 2020, the reign of the von Neumann architecture will begin fading away after 75 years of dominance.

Stretchable Electronics to Top $1 Billion By 2030
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Stretchable Electronics to Top $1 Billion By 2030

A growing variety of stretchable polymers will help integrate electronics into medical implants, consumer products, and more.

Academic Supercomputer Seeks a Top 10 Ranking
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Academic Supercomputer Seeks a Top 10 Ranking

A second-generation academic supercomputer aims to break into the top rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers.

China's Robot Revolution
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China's Robot Revolution

The Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance aims to use robotics and automation to help China become increasingly a high-tech manufacturing nation.

Solid-State Batteries to Support the Growth of Iot
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Solid-State Batteries to Support the Growth of Iot

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

Free Quantum Computers Online!
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Free Quantum Computers Online!

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

Locking Out the Hackers
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Locking Out the Hackers

New hardware, services are aimed at identifying malware before it has the chance to execute.

Neuroscience Misses the Meaning
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Neuroscience Misses the Meaning

Examining each transistor in a microprocessor using techniques for analyzing how the human brain works did not yield anticipated understanding.

Fixing the Fake News Problem
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Fixing the Fake News Problem

Unsubstantiated information can spread like wildfire through social media; new tools aim to make it easy to track down sources of misinformation, no matter where...

Poker-Playing AI Beats Top Human Players
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Poker-Playing AI Beats Top Human Players

Developers at Carnegie Mellon University create an artificial intelligence that learns, wins.

Cornell Video Game Speeds Language Learning
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Cornell Video Game Speeds Language Learning

Adding "fun" and "chat" aspects to the game enhances memorization and understanding of context.

Smart Lighting Follows People
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Smart Lighting Follows People

A new low-cost technique allows the use of light-emitting diodes to track people’s locations and gestures within a room.

3d/vr Malady May Have Simple Solution
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3d/vr Malady May Have Simple Solution

A simple low-tech solution appears to compensate for the vergence-accommodation conflict.

Google ­nveils 'artificial Creativity'
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Google ­nveils 'artificial Creativity'

Google's Magenta artificial intelligence is being challenged to produce original music and other art.

Software Agents Begin to Form Personal Rapport with ­sers
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Software Agents Begin to Form Personal Rapport with ­sers

Making friends with software.

Knowledge Graphs Pick Needles from the Haystack
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Knowledge Graphs Pick Needles from the Haystack

Using machine learning to wade through massive amounts of data.

Visualization Streams For ­ltimate Scalability
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Visualization Streams For ­ltimate Scalability

In this era of big data, the world needs tools that can visualize the most important aspects of data without having to hold it all in memory.

Designing Interactive Memory Joggers
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Designing Interactive Memory Joggers

Texts, photos, and videos are the fodder of memories, which require appropriate cues to materialize those memories from custom-designed hardware, says one researcher...

Glasses Foil Facial Recognition
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Glasses Foil Facial Recognition

The PrivacyVisor prevents facial detection/identification programs based on Haar-like feature recognition.  
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