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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Cory Anstey always wanted to be a farmer. It was the joy of riding in the tractor, "the smell of the dirt in the spring" that drew him to the fields.CNET From ACM News | July 6, 2016
I'm sitting in an office at the University of California, Berkeley with an electrode strapped to my head. A black headband holds a connector to my forehead and...CNET From ACM News | July 5, 2016
In a special video production, CNET takes you inside the hallowed halls of Bletchley Park, the stately home in Buckinghamshire, England where the Enigma code was...CNET From ACM News | June 24, 2016
Google's artificial intelligence software, smart enough to help vanquish the world's top Go player and answer your email, is coming to your iPhone.CNET From ACM News | June 9, 2016
Ever wanted to pound your PC as it crawls through a restart or fumed that your phone takes much too long to launch an e-book app?
CNET From ACM News | May 25, 2016
About 35 high-school students sit at neatly arranged rows of tables in the university's gym. Another 115 college-level contestants surround the high schoolers.CNET From ACM Careers | May 16, 2016
Belgian design organization Imec is expanding into new territory with its latest computer chip technology research projects. CNet From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2016
The New Yorker magazine is using crowdsourcing algorithms to mine a massive volume of cartoon caption submissions to identify the funniest captions. CNet From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2016
Researchers at the University of Southampton have designed an insole to sit inside a person's shoe and harvest energy from their footsteps.CNet From ACM TechNews | March 22, 2016
Apple shouldn't have to comply with a search order for an iPhone used by one the San Bernardino, California, terrorists because the Constitution forbids it, the...CNET From ACM News | March 16, 2016
Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's unclear, but I know for sure that every kid dreams of intelligent, thinking robots—certainly every kid who goes on to...CNET From ACM News | December 22, 2015