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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Students at Henderson high school in Tennessee constructed a robotic hand for classmate Sergio Peralta, whose right hand was not fully formed.
The Guardian (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | January 27, 2023
Brownies, the second-youngest section of Girlguiding (scouting) in the U.K. for girls aged 7–10, are learning to code, while Guides (ages 10-14) are working with...The Guardian From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2022
The South Korean government has launched trials of small robots in 300 nurseries and childcare centers in Seoul as teaching aids.
The Guardian (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2021
Europe's leading scientists have crafted plans for a multinational European institute for artificial intelligence research.
The Guardian From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2018
The UN has warned that robots could destabilise the world ahead of the opening of a headquarters in The Hague to monitor developments in artificial intelligence...The Guardian From ACM News | September 27, 2017
The day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar...The Guardian From ACM Careers | August 21, 2017
The McDonald's on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn/t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain's other locations...The Guardian From ACM News | January 11, 2017
Microsoft and Code.org have released a new tutorial for Hour of Code, an annual campaign held during Computer Science Education Week to encourage more students...The Guardian From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2016
The newborn universe may have glowed with light beams moving much faster than they do today, according to a theory that overturns Einstein's century-old claim that...The Guardian From ACM News | November 30, 2016
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after ...The Guardian From ACM News | August 2, 2016
A portrait titled "the Next Rembrandt" is the end-product of an 18-month project that brought together data scientists, developers, engineers, and art historians...The Guardian From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2016
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...The Guardian From ACM News | February 16, 2016
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...The Guardian From ACM News | February 4, 2015
Google is hoping to inspire children's interest in quantum computing by using one of their favourite digital pastimes: Minecraft.The Guardian From ACM Careers | October 23, 2013
It's 9am on a lovely autumn morning at Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, just outside Geneva.The Guardian From ACM News | November 5, 2012
Government intelligence service targets "self-taught" hackers with cryptic Web site that features no obvious branding.The Guardian From ACM Careers | December 5, 2011
With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2011