It is easy to take for granted the advancements in our mobile phones, wearable electronics, and other gadgets. But advances in computing rely on processes that...Technology Review From ACM News | April 14, 2016
The ability to reproduce scent artificially is surprisingly complex, and the work of the Weizmann Institute of Science's David Harel sheds light on the issue. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2016
University of Namur researchers are using network science to map the links between mathematicians of the last 700 years. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2016
The field of artificial intelligence has experienced a striking spurt of progress in recent years, with software becoming much better at understanding images, speech...Technology Review From ACM News | April 6, 2016
University College London lecturer David Silver suggests software similar to Google DeepMind's AlphaGo could be crafted to play poker competently.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2016
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...Technology Review From ACM News | April 1, 2016
Virtual currency could become more viable thanks to a new Bitcoin-like system developed by University College London researchers. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 14, 2016
Ahmad Hassanat from Mu'tah University in Jordan and colleagues have developed a way to distinguish people from the unique way they make the "V for victory" sign...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2016
Sports scientists now can gather vast amounts of data on players and the action while games are in progress, but they still struggle to process the data in meaningful...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2016
Rather than painstakingly typing in passwords on your smartphone, you may eventually just swipe a shape or other pattern on its display to authenticate yourself...Technology Review From ACM News | March 4, 2016
Here's a tricky task. Pick a photograph from the Web at random. Now try to work out where it was taken using only the image itself.Technology Review From ACM News | February 26, 2016
Art created by machines raises unanswered questions about its potential and whether it can truly be defined as creative or imaginative. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 17, 2016
Every day computers make many millions of electronic trades by performing delicate calculations aimed at eking out a tiny edge in terms of speed or efficiency.Technology Review From ACM News | February 4, 2016
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence machine that learned how to write political speeches that are very similar to real speeches. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 22, 2016
Researchers report they can control the phase and electrical properties of a thin-film material by applying a small voltage. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 21, 2016
Buy a new car these days and the chances are that it will be fitted with an array of driver-assistance technologies.Technology Review From ACM News | January 15, 2016