In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar robots struggled to perform even simple tasks like climbing a flight of stairs; someimpeccable...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
Augmented or mixed reality, which renders virtual images in a view of the real world, can be spectacular to experience. But it may be even more fun when you bring...Technology Review From ACM News | October 13, 2015
When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, he's not talking about someone who arranges his record collection...Technology Review From ACM News | October 9, 2015
It can take weeks to reprogram an industrial robot to perform a complicated new task, which makes retooling a modern manufacturing line painfully expensive and...Technology Review From ACM News | October 5, 2015
When NASA scientists announced that instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sensed signs of liquid water seeping on the Martian surface, they meant a solution...Technology Review From ACM News | October 2, 2015
Computational linguistics has dramatically changed the way researchers study and understand language.Technology Review From ACM News | September 22, 2015
Researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan have developed a photon gun and a single photon detector that uses the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2015
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took...Technology Review From ACM News | September 15, 2015
The ultimate nightmare for critics of the Iran nuclear deal being debated in Congress is that somehow, despite the agreement and all its built-in safeguards, Iran...Technology Review From ACM News | September 11, 2015
Uber is collaborating with the University of Arizona on a mapping and safety project for self-driving cars.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
Microsoft researchers consider it vital for encryption upgrades to be developed now, to anticipate quantum computing's decryption potential.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2015
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal researchers have developed a programming language designed to govern the movements of heterogeneous robot swarms. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2015
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists...Technology Review From ACM News | August 4, 2015
A tiny artificial eye inspired by the vision systems of insects could help small flying drones navigate their surroundings well enough to avoid collisions while...Technology Review From ACM News | August 3, 2015
The computer game Minecraft, which depicts a world made up of retro, pixelated blocks that can be modified and rearranged in endless architectural configurations...Technology Review From ACM News | July 15, 2015
Google Street View offers panoramic views of more or less any city street in much of the developed world, as well as views along countless footpaths, inside shopping...Technology Review From ACM News | July 7, 2015