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
Brown University researchers have developed an approach that enables robots to quickly determine the sequence of actions that will work in a particular environment...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 15, 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
In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been...Technology Review From ACM News | July 13, 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
Imagine you slack off at work and read up online about the latest Gibson 1959 Les Paul electric guitar replica.Technology Review From ACM News | July 2, 2015
There are simple steps that can be taken to make software more secure and resilient, writes Carnegie Mellon University professor Jean Yang. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2015
Understanding how the brain works—or doesn't, as the case may be—depends on deciphering the patterns of electrical signals its neurons produce.Technology Review From ACM News | June 19, 2015
Karl Moritz Hermann and his team at Google DeepMind say the way some news sites display articles facilitates the creation of a database computers can use to learn...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 19, 2015
The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative." Technology Review From ACM News | June 17, 2015
A machine-learning technique that has already given computers an eerie ability to recognize speech and categorize images is now creeping into industries ranging...Technology Review From ACM News | June 2, 2015
Social robots like the quasi-anthropomorphic Jibo and Amazon's far more utilitarian Echo are beginning to find their places in our living rooms.Technology Review From ACM News | May 29, 2015
Imagine an oak tree in a field of wheat, silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky on a dreamy sunny afternoon.Technology Review From ACM News | May 28, 2015
To rescue its struggling business, Hewlett-Packard is making a long-shot bid to change the fundamentals of how computers work. Technology Review From ACM News | May 26, 2015
Demonstrations of augmented-reality displays typically involve tricking you into seeing animated content such as monsters and robots that aren’t really there.Technology Review From ACM News | May 22, 2015
Computer scientists have long known that evolution is an algorithmic process that has little to do with the nature of the beasts it creates.Technology Review From ACM News | May 21, 2015