Researchers recently demonstrated their new Look and Link wireless technology, which could improve device-to-device communications. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 3, 2014
When teams participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced last year, almost all of them provided reasonably detailed renderings that gave us...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 11, 2013
Bitcoin, the leading online alternative currency, has attracted high-minded entrepreneurs and crooks alike.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | November 7, 2013
Cellphone metadata offers real-time information in emergency situations that could help first responders and protect the public.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2013
IBM has given Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute an open-ended three-year charter to improve the intelligence of IBM's Watson software. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2013
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | February 13, 2013
In an interview, Google Glass project leader Babak Parviz discusses where the wearable device is heading in the near future. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2013
When it comes to reconstructing the past, you might think that astrophysicists have it easy. After all, the sky is awash with evidence,IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 3, 2012
When Microsoft was developing its Kinect 3D sensor, a critical task was to calibrate its algorithms to rapidly and accurately recognize parts of the human body,...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2012
On 6 August, peaceful protests over the police shooting of a local man in London's Tottenham district exploded into full-blown riots. During four days of assaults...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | November 2, 2011
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 20, 2011
Gravity may be woven into the very fabric of space-time, but some objects seem nearly immune to its pull. Scale something down to the size of a dust particle...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | July 29, 2011
Commotion Wireless is the Open Technology Initiative's effort to develop mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) so that citizens of oppressive governments can maintain...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2011
Kilobots are fairly simple little robots about the size of a quarter that can move around on vibrating legs, blink their lights, and communicate with each other...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 22, 2011
Many companies use content-delivery networks as a defense against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but Michael Rabinovich of Case Western Reserve University...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2011
Researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University are working on the mobileASL project, which is developing a mobile phone that would enable deaf...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2009