The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Touch screens are ubiquitous on tablets and smartphones, but their flat glass surfaces can hinder close reading and accurate typing.The New York Times From ACM News | May 19, 2014
Steve Rushin of Sports Illustrated has called the line running through Connecticut that separates Yankee fans and Red Sox fans the Munson-Nixon line.The New York Times From ACM News | April 25, 2014
The best way to think about Aereo, the company at the center of this week's Supreme Court battle over the future of computing, is as an example of legal performance...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2014
Google has developed an algorithm that can generate photographic images with a depth of field similar to pictures taken by a single lens reflex camera. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2014
The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2014
When Butler fell a precious few inches short of winning a national championship in 2010, its players took the court during that season believing they were the most...The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 25, 2014
How did "The Lion King" turn around its once-shaky fortunes and become the top-grossing show on Broadway in 2013, an unprecedented feat for long-running musicals...The New York Times From ACM News | March 18, 2014
The football players strutted down a 40-yard strip of synthetic turf, yelling, jumping and flailing their arms to whip the fans into a frenzy.The New York Times From ACM Careers | February 3, 2014
Holodecks similar to the simulated-reality rooms seen on "Star Trek" could be available by 2024, according to some scientists and researchers. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | January 29, 2014
When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background...The New York Times From ACM News | January 28, 2014
On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting...The New York Times From ACM News | October 31, 2013
While sitting in a stuffy Hollywood hotel conference room recently, I plotted my next move outside a snow-covered, ancient castle.The New York Times From ACM News | October 15, 2013
Tien Wu, chief operating officer of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, has a problem: the brightest young people in Taiwan do not want to work in the island’s...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 16, 2013
Days before I was to meet Battushig Myanganbayar at his home in Mongolia, he sent me an e-mail with a modest request: Would I bring him a pair of tiny XBee wireless...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 16, 2013
While Apple talked about a couple of new products on Tuesday, Intel, with much less fanfare, talked about the transformation of a world, and itself.The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 12, 2013
The first thing Bruce Levy did upon recent entry into Yankee Stadium while accompanied by his in-laws and teenage son was to purchase a program in the area of the...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2013