Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Study Explains Role of Certain Types of Oxide in Structure, Development of Specialty Glass
Researchers used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and computational modeling to demonstrate silica network polymerization.
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What Do Neurons, Fireflies, and Dancing the Nutbush Have in Common?
Computer scientists and mathematicians have designed a framework for evaluating synchronized phenomena.
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Toughest Known Structure Discovered by Autonomous Robot Lab
The Bayesian experimental autonomous researcher robotics laboratory at Canada's University of Toronto has discovered the most energy-absorbent mechanical structure...
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Teen's Pill-Tracking Device Attracts Interest from CVS Pharmacy
U.S. pharmacy chain CVS is among those interested in a pill-tracking device created by Virginia-based high school student Archishma Marrapu.
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Historic Algorithms Help Unlock Shortest-Path Problem Breakthrough
By revisiting key algorithms from computing, a team unlocked hidden efficiency in a long-standing computer science problem.
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Complexity Theory's 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results...
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Superconducting Device Could Dramatically Cut Energy Use in Computing, Other Applications
A simple superconducting device developed by MIT researchers could help achieve significant reductions in energy usage by high-power computing systems and potentially...
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Faster Spin Waves May Enable Magnonic Computing Systems
A team of scientists says it has solved the challenge of exciting spin waves with normalized amplitudes by exploiting a deeply non-linear phenomenon for forward...
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Deep Learning for New Protein Design
Scientists at the University of Washington and Belgium's Ghent University enhanced current energy-based physical models in de novo computational protein design...
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From Time Crystals to Wormholes: When Is a Quantum Simulation Real?
Physicists are using quantum computers to conjure exotic phenomena and claiming their creations are truly real.
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Glasgow University Spinout Raises $43 Million to 'Digitize Chemistry'
Chemify, which was spun out of the U.K.'s Glasgow University in 2022, has received $43 million in funding to further its efforts to "digitize chemistry."
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LK-99 Confirmed Not To Be A Room-Temperature Superconductor
There is no point in resisting the data.
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Superconductor Claims Could Lead to Progress, Even If They're Wrong
Experts are right to be wary of claims that a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor has been found, but the flurry of new research to confirm the finding...
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Computer-Assisted Proofs Take on Fluid Flow
Researchers use computers to show that equations can "blow up."
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Magnetic Surprise Revealed in 'Magic-Angle' Graphene
Magnets and superconductors don't normally get along, but a new study shows that 'magic-angle' graphene is capable of producing both superconductivity and ferromagnetism...
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Emojis Are Increasingly Legally Binding. But They're Still Open to Wide Interpretation
Each year, more cases in U.S. courts treat emojis as legally binding. However, giving the same weight to emojis as one would give to signatures comes with its own...
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Generative AI Tools Quickly 'Running Out of Text' to Train Themselves
It's the latest concern raised regarding OpenAI and other AI developers' data-collection practices.
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A New Way to Look at Data Privacy
A new metric allows a small amount of noise to be added to models to protect sensitive data while maintaining the model's accuracy.
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Building Robust Optical Structures Made of Darkness
A team of Harvard University researchers harnessed metasurfaces to generate and manipulate dark regions in electromagnetic fields called "optical singularities."...
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