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
Experts Establish 'North Star' for Domestic Robotics Field
Stanford University researchers have created a catalogue of the physical and intellectual details of 100 everyday household tasks, to set benchmarks for domestic...
From ACM News
What Caused the Facebook Outage?
Why was the social media service and its related properties out of service for hours, frustrating users and Facebook engineers alike?
From ACM TechNews
High-Tech Approaches to America's Sewer Problem
U.S. cities and service contractors use flying drones, crawling robots, and remote-operated swimming machines to explore, diagnose, and fix municipal sewer systems...
From ACM News
IBM Achieves Quantum Computing Breakthrough
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told "Axios on HBO," "It is impossible to simulate it on something else, which implies it's more powerful than anything else."
From ACM TechNews
What's in the Water?
Researchers have mapped the global pathways of nitrogen and pathogens from human wastewater.
From ACM TechNews
Unique Robotic Hand Can Rotate Objects Without Releasing Grasp
A novel robotic hand can change a grasped object's orientation without letting go.
From ACM TechNews
True, Untrue Viral News Move Equally Through Twitter
A study found both true and untrue viral news spread through Twitter at the same speed, breadth, and depth.
From ACM TechNews
More Than a Third of Women in Tech Eyeing the Exit in Next Two Years
More than a third of 1,000 surveyed women in the technology sector intend to quit in the next two years, driven by the pandemic and gender inequality.
From ACM News
Why Facebook Won't Let You Control Your Own News Feed
Lawmakers want social networks to offer users a chronological timeline. Leaked documents help to explain why Facebook doesn't.
From ACM News
When Finnish Researchers Took On the Twitter Trolls
A nation's scientists took to social media in response to criticism of their research, with surprising results. Sami Syrjämäki describes what happened.
From ACM TechNews
AI Brings Power of NLP to African Languages
A neural network model developed by researchers at Canada's University of Waterloo enables computer-based analysis of text in 11 African languages.
From ACM TechNews
Nuclear Radiation Used to Transmit Digital Data Wirelessly
Digitally encoded information has been transmitted wirelessly using nuclear radiation.
From ACM TechNews
Dexterous Robotic Hands Manipulate Objects with Ease
A new system can enable robotic hands to handle more than 2,000 different objects.
From ACM News
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao Receives 2021 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
Yao contributed to cutting-edge research in areas including security, secure computing, and quantum computation.
From ACM News
Bipartisan Bill Takes Aim at Algorithms
The bill would require Internet platforms to let people use a version of their services where content is not selected by "opaque algorithms" driven by personal...
From ACM News
The Next Generation of AI-Enabled Cars Will Understand You
In-cabin sensors can help customize the passenger experience.
From ACM TechNews
First Global River Database Documents 40 Years of Change
A new database shows the movement of the river centerlines of the 48 most threatened deltas in the world over the past 40 years.
From ACM TechNews
Social Media Is Reshaping British Universities' Value Systems in Scramble for Likes, Shares
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Cambridge found universities' value judgments about research have been tied to social media platforms.
From ACM TechNews
Tracked Bottom-Crawling Robot Gathers Valuable Deep-Sea Data
The Benthic Rover II robot has spent seven years collecting deep-sea data 140 miles off California's coast.
From ACM TechNews