Yann LeCun is among those bringing a new level of artificial intelligence to popular internet services from the likes of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.Wired From ACM News | May 28, 2015
As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope.Wired From ACM Careers | May 22, 2015
In 1997 chess master Gary Kasparov went to battle against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a landmark match. After six games Deep Blue prevailed, marking the...Wired From ACM Careers | May 21, 2015
Sometime next summer, you'll be able to watch a horror series that is exactly as scary as you want it to be—no more, no less.Wired From ACM News | April 23, 2015
For all the Brad Pitt-fueled hype, sabermetric analysis is still only as good as the systems that capture data from the field—who hit what to whom.Wired From ACM News | April 8, 2015
An old aviators' joke goes like this: In the future, airline cockpit crews will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, the dog is there...Wired From ACM News | April 1, 2015
If NASA plans to send robots to other planets, it's going to need some new designs: ones that are easy to land, easy to move around, and easy to fix.Wired From ACM News | March 5, 2015
When Andrew Ng trained Google's army of computers to identify cat videos using artificial intelligence, he hit a few snags.Wired From ACM News | February 19, 2015
Diogo Mónica once wrote a short computer script that gave him a secret weapon in the war for San Francisco dinner reservations.Wired From ACM News | December 18, 2014
When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947, he suggested that a computer program’s resemblance to a human mind could be gauged by making it answer...Wired From ACM News | December 3, 2014
Birds are nice enough, unless you work at places like airports, farms, and landfills, in which case they’re the sworn enemy.Wired From ACM Careers | August 27, 2014
Whistleblower Edward Snowden claims the U.S. National Security Agency is developing an autonomous cyberdefense system.Wired News From ACM TechNews | August 15, 2014
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.Wired From ACM News | August 12, 2014
It was one of the most tedious jobs on the Internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street...Wired From ACM News | July 16, 2014