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
This year's Annual Computer Poker Competition includes three poker games, including heads-up limit, heads-up no limit, and three-player limit Texas Hold 'Em. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 23, 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
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
As litigation over software in the United States and elsewhere has skyrocketed, automatic software forensics tools that can quickly and accurately uncover illicit...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 24, 2010