When Amit Khera explains how he predicts disease, the young cardiologist's hands touch the air, arranging imaginary columns of people: 30,000 who have suffered...Technology Review From ACM News | February 26, 2018
Inside a small laboratory in lush countryside about 50 miles north of New York City, an elaborate tangle of tubes and electronics dangles from the ceiling. This...Technology Review From ACM News | February 23, 2018
After atmospheric scientist Ivana Cvijanovic began pushing a computerized climate simulation to its limits, she noticed a disturbing result: as Arctic sea ice nearly...Technology Review From ACM News | February 9, 2018
In an office at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a computer chip is crunching data from a nearby camera, looking for faces stored in a database.
Technology Review From ACM News | February 2, 2018
You've seen the headlines: "Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs—and We're Not Ready for It." "You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think." "Robots May...Technology Review From ACM Careers | January 31, 2018
Ever since scientists first used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit living human cells in 2013, they've been saying that the possibilities for using it to treat disease are virtually...Technology Review From ACM News | December 20, 2017
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 1, 2017
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2017
Stanford University professor Andrew Ng is supporting the development of a Facebook chatbot to offer interactive cognitive behavior therapy to people suffering...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2017
Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab director Fei-Fei Li advocates for more human-centered AI and the benefits it can yield.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2017
Creating noodling piano tunes and endless configurations of cat drawings with AI may not sound like an obvious project for Google, but it makes a lot of sense to...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 13, 2017
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
Technology Review From ACM News | August 10, 2017
The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, MIT Technology...Technology Review From ACM News | July 28, 2017
Machine learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the study and understanding of mental illness.
MIT Technology Review From ACM News | July 24, 2017
Last year, a Long March 2D rocket took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert carrying a satellite called Micius, named after an ancient...Technology Review From ACM News | July 12, 2017