acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

News


bg-corner

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


Study Finds Auto-Fix Tool Gets More Programmers to ­pgrade Code
From ACM TechNews

Study Finds Auto-Fix Tool Gets More Programmers to ­pgrade Code

Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that auto-fix tools are effective ways to get programmers to make relevant upgrades.

Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
From ACM Careers

Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords

When David Stinson finished high school, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1977, the first thing he did was get a job building houses.

Scientists ­se Machine Learning to Translate 'hidden' Information That Reveals Chemistry in Action
From ACM TechNews

Scientists ­se Machine Learning to Translate 'hidden' Information That Reveals Chemistry in Action

Researchers say they have taught computers to decipher previously inaccessible information from x-ray data and apply it to decoding three-dimensional nanoscale...

Esnet's Science Dmz Design Could Help Transfer, Protect Medical Research Data
From ACM TechNews

Esnet's Science Dmz Design Could Help Transfer, Protect Medical Research Data

Researchers say the Energy Sciences Network's Science DMZ architecture for rapidly and securely transferring large datasets could be adapted to fulfill the needs...

Scientists Can Read a Bird's Brain and Predict Its Next Song
From ACM TechNews

Scientists Can Read a Bird's Brain and Predict Its Next Song

Researchers have built a brain-to-tweet interface that predicts the song a finch is going to sing a fraction of a second before it does so.

The State of Wireless Charging
From ACM News

The State of Wireless Charging

Apple's recent wireless charging announcements highlight how far the tech has come—and how far it needs to go.

Nasa Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event
From ACM News

Nasa Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event

For the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neutron stars in the galaxy NGC 4993, located...

Johns Hopkins Scientists to Build Machine Translation System For Obscure Languages
From ACM TechNews

Johns Hopkins Scientists to Build Machine Translation System For Obscure Languages

A team of scientists has received a grant from the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence to create an information retrieval and translation system...

Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs Symposium
From ACM TechNews

Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs Symposium

The Computing Community Consortium on October 23-24 will host the "Computing Research: Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs Symposium."

Internet Researchers Harnessed the Power of Algorithm to Find Hate Speech
From ACM TechNews

Internet Researchers Harnessed the Power of Algorithm to Find Hate Speech

Researchers have trained an algorithm to identify hate speech by comparing what differentiates text that includes hate speech from text that does not contain hate...

The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.
From ACM News

The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.

When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them.

How Do You Build the Next-Generation Internet?
From ACM News

How Do You Build the Next-Generation Internet?

Imagine super-fast computers that can solve problems much quicker than machines today.

Stretchable Electronics to Top $1 Billion By 2030
From ACM News

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.

Mathematical Modeling For Better Designs and Simulations
From ACM TechNews

Mathematical Modeling For Better Designs and Simulations

Dublin City University professor Patricia Moore in Ireland says she tries "to make it easier for computers to solve simulation problems as efficiently and accurately...

Driverless Cars Learn From Humans in Greenwich Project
From ACM TechNews

Driverless Cars Learn From Humans in Greenwich Project

Tests are underway in the London borough of Greenwich in the U.K. that could expedite the development of safer driverless vehicles under the government-funded Move_UK...

Could Virtual Reality Replace Therapy?
From ACM TechNews

Could Virtual Reality Replace Therapy?

Psychologists are testing virtual reality systems as a therapeutic tool for phobias and disorders.

Facebook Thinks the Most ­seful Digital Assistant Is the One That Can Read Minds
From ACM TechNews

Facebook Thinks the Most ­seful Digital Assistant Is the One That Can Read Minds

The head of Facebook's moonshot division says the company wants to use brain-computer interface technology to enable people to type with their minds.

The Female Code Breakers Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
From ACM TechNews

The Female Code Breakers Who Helped Defeat the Nazis

More than 10,000 female "cryptoanalysts" were enlisted by the U.S. Army and Navy to help crack Nazi codes and ensure the Allies' victory in World War II.

Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain
From ACM News

Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain

"Here's the problem with artificial intelligence today," says David Cox.

Reconstructing Cassini's Plunge Into Saturn
From ACM News

Reconstructing Cassini's Plunge Into Saturn

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its fateful dive into the upper atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, the spacecraft was live-streaming data from eight of its science...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account