The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
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.
Microsoft, working with Novartis and three multiple sclerosis clinics in Europe, has created a prototype intelligent-camera system to track the disease's progress...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | February 11, 2016
Every afternoon, crowds of Cubans gather outside Havana's top hotels—mob boss Meyer Lansky's favorite Nacional de Cuba, Ernest Hemingway's old haunt Ambos Mundos...Bloomberg From ACM News | February 5, 2016
In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 22, 2016
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 21, 2015
A yellow robotic arm pauses over a pile of metal cylinders, snaps a photo, then proceeds to confidently pick pieces out of the jumble.Bloomberg From ACM News | December 3, 2015
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2015
When Google-parent Alphabet Inc. reported eye-popping earnings last week its executives couldn’t stop talking up the company's investments in machine learning and...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 26, 2015
Apple Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer and the director of the National Security Agency squared off on Monday in a debate over how much access technology companies...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 20, 2015
Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 1, 2015
At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | September 30, 2015
Every first-time player of daily fantasy football begins the new season undefeated, just like even the most hopeless NFL teams.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | September 10, 2015
On the seventh floor of Berkeley's technology research hall, a bright blue and yellow plastic ray gun sits on a long table, along with wooden spoons, model planes...Bloomberg From ACM News | September 2, 2015
A new law in force in Russia from Sept. 1 is intended to force foreign Internet firms to maintain local servers to handle data on Russian citizens.Bloomberg From ACM News | September 2, 2015
In the fall of 2008, Louis C.K. was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and delivered a soon-to-be-viral rant called "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | August 26, 2015
As the global elite gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and four other executives from the Internet...Bloomberg From ACM News | August 7, 2015
The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | July 17, 2015
The gearheads in Detroit, Tokyo, and Stuttgart have mostly figured out how to build driverless vehicles. Even the Google guys seem to have solved the riddle.Bloomberg From ACM News | June 25, 2015
For the U.S., the extradition of Ercan Findikoglu shows the value of patience when it comes to pursuing suspected hacker kingpins.Bloomberg From ACM News | June 25, 2015