More work is needed to make synthesized speech more natural, easier to understand, and more pleasant to hear.
Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2017
A theoretical breakthrough in graph isomorphism excites complexity experts, but will it lead to any practical improvements?Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2016
40 years ago, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman introduced the public key cryptography used to secure today's online transactions.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2016
Classification algorithms can lead to biased decisions, so researchers are trying to identify such biases and root them out.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2016
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2016
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2015
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2015
Leslie Lamport contributed to the theory and practice of building distributed computing systems that work as intended.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2014
4D printing combines the dimension of time with the hope of building objects with new capabilities.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2014
Gesture and gaze are among the newest additions to a growing family of computer interfaces.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2013