A research team at Georgia Tech hopes to make augmented reality on smart phones more useful by developing an open standard for it.Technology Review From ACM News | March 8, 2011
Link-shortening services may be slowing down parts of the Internet, according to the Foundation for Research and Technology and Microsoft Research. And it might...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2011
"Contactless" hardware lets phones and gadgets pay with a tap, but the coming plethora of apps that use it may confuse users.Technology Review From ACM News | December 1, 2010
MIT researchers have developed TurKit, a toolkit that enables users to write algorithms to coordinate online workers using Javascript and create human intelligence...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2010
Scanning 1,200 brains could help researchers chart the organ's fine structure and better understand neurological disorders.Technology Review From ACM News | September 30, 2010
Creators of two dozen new programming languages—some designed to enable powerful new Web applications and mobile devices—presented their work last week in Portland...Technology Review From ACM News | July 26, 2010
In a prelude to overhauling its regulatory oversight of genetic diagnostic testing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will convene a public meeting next week...Technology Review From ACM News | July 13, 2010
Bacteria communicate with molecules, and now computer scientists want to copy them. Their first task: to derive a mathematical theory of molecular communication...Technology Review From ACM News | June 28, 2010
University of Hong Kong students trained a convolutional neural network built for image recognition to classify music.Technology Review From ACM News | June 3, 2010
In the culmination of a project spanning 15 years, scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have engineered the first cell controlled by a synthetic genome.Technology Review From ACM News | May 21, 2010
Earlier this month, the journal Lancet Neurology published a study showing that the generic drug lithium did nothing to slow the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...Technology Review From ACM News | May 11, 2010
Several months after deciphering his genetic code last year, Stanford bioengineer Stephen Quake approached a cardiologist colleague. Early analysis of his DNA had...Technology Review From ACM News | April 30, 2010