By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems…
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.
Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.
Chris Edwards From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2023
The News Media Alliance, a trade group that represents newspapers, says that A.I. chatbots use news articles significantly more than generic content online.
The New York Times From ACM News | November 1, 2023
Microsoft said its Project Silica glass media storage technology can retain roughly 1.75 million songs or about 3,500 movies on a palm-sized glass sheet for 10,000...Tom's Hardware From ACM TechNews | October 18, 2023
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has exceeded the 1-exabyte threshold, amassing 1 million terabytes (TB) of disk space.
CERN (Switzerland) From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2023
NASA will work with startup Lonestar plus the Isle of Man to send a data payload to the Moon next February to assess lunar-based backup storage as part of the Artemis...BBC Science Focus From ACM TechNews | September 25, 2023
Considering the transformative possibilities of simulated models of biological phenomena and systems at multiple scales.
Gregory Mone From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2023
Private equity firms integrating machine learning and data analytics into their investment processes increasingly are turning to data-science experts to interpret...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2023
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
Esther Shein From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2023
Researchers explored the octopus's neural makeup that defines its learning processes using automated tissue preparation and new machine learning reconstruction...The Jerusalem Post (Israel) From ACM TechNews | August 22, 2023
Scientists at the University of Washington and Belgium's Ghent University enhanced current energy-based physical models in de novo computational protein design...Texas Advanced Computing Center From ACM TechNews | August 14, 2023
An open source AI agent developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Meta AI gives robots manipulation abilities equivalent to those of a three-year-old child...Carnegie Mellon University From ACM TechNews | August 14, 2023
Nearly 2,500 hackers at the DEFCON conference's AI Village spent this past weekend poking and probing some of the most popular large language models for flaws.
...Axios From ACM News | August 14, 2023
Researchers at NIST suggest good strategies for talking to kids about online privacy and security, from a young age through high school.
National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | August 14, 2023
Looking for ways to cut the release of greenhouse gases attributable to AI use, at a time that usage is very likely to grow.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2023
Physicists have pioneered a method to engineer electromagnetic spin on metasurfaces, addressing the data storage and transfer needs of an increasingly digital world...SciTechDaily From ACM News | July 20, 2023