The White House and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials support arguments by the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence leaders that encryption technology...Technology Review From ACM News | April 23, 2015
Back in the 1880s, the American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed something strange about the book of logarithmic tables in his library—the earlier pages were much...Technology Review From ACM News | April 22, 2015
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
Sending pulses of electricity through the brain via implanted electrodes—a procedure known as deep brain stimulation—can relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's and...Technology Review From ACM News | April 16, 2015
For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the...Technology Review From ACM News | April 14, 2015
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2015
We have self-driving cars, knowledgeable digital assistants, and software capable of putting names to faces as well as any expert.Technology Review From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Google's Pagerank algorithm has become one of the most famous in computer science. It was originally designed to rank websites according to their importance by...Technology Review From ACM News | March 16, 2015
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.Technology Review From ACM News | March 6, 2015
A Canadian startup is working to make monsters, fish, and other creatures seem to come alive inside a tabletop box.Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 27, 2015
During a famous scene in Star Wars, Princess Leia has R2D2 play a holographic video message in midair in which she pleads for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the near...Technology Review From ACM News | February 25, 2015
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.Technology Review From ACM News | February 20, 2015
The Facebook page "the same photo of Toto Cutugno every day" has caught the attention of fans of the Italian singer, as well as researchers. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 10, 2015
In the last few years, two-dimensional crystals have emerged as some of the most exciting new materials to play with.Technology Review From ACM News | January 13, 2015
A new form of computer memory might help machines match the capabilities of the human brain when it comes to tasks such as interpreting images or video footage.Technology Review From ACM News | January 5, 2015
The holy grail of artificial intelligence—creating software that comes close to mimicking human intelligence—remains far off. But 2014 saw major strides in machine...Technology Review From ACM News | December 30, 2014