Technical Perspective: The Path to Light Transport
"Geometric Tools for Exploring Manifolds of Light Transport Paths" presents a technique to address the challenging problems of light transport.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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Geometric Tools For Exploring Manifolds of Light Transport Paths
We provide a geometric solution to the longstanding problem of light simulations by representing light paths as points in an abstract high-dimensional configuration space that is defined by a system of constraint equations.
Brain Science Helps Computers Separate Speakers in a Crowded Room
People can listen to a single voice amid the hubbub of a cocktail party; algorithms can help computers do it, too.
Natural Language Generation software begins delivering on the promise of automated prose.
I continue to look for ways to preserve digital information over long periods of time. Imagine storing petabytes of information in vials containing dried DNA and using robots to retrieve it.
Automotive Systems Get Smarter
Automotive infotainment systems are driving changes to automobiles, and to driver behavior.
Information processing gives spiritual meaning to life, for those who make it their life's work.
The Future of Work: But What Will Humans Do?
Weighing in on the most consequential changes anticipated in the workplace.
Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes For Furniture Design
The authors propose an interactive design framework for the efficient and intuitive exploration of geometrically and physically valid shapes.
Testing a distributed system can be trying even under the best of circumstances.
Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence
AI has seen great advances of many kinds recently, but there is one critical area where progress has been extremely slow: ordinary commonsense.
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
Technical Perspective: A Woodworker’s Easy Fix
The authors of "Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes for Furniture Design" have found a way to provide the user with instant feedback on how to fix unstable or toppling wooden panel constructions.
Natural Language Translation at the Intersection of AI and HCI
Old questions being answered with both AI and HCI.
Researchers are studying birds and insects in order to make drone flight second nature.
Teaching Computers with Illusions
Exploring the ways human vision can be fooled is helping developers of machine vision.
The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
Challenges Deploying Complex Technologies in a Traditional Organization
The National Palace Museum in Taiwan had to partner with experienced cloud providers to deliver television-quality exhibits.
Programming the Quantum Future
The Quipper language offers a unified general-purpose programming framework for quantum computation.
AI Researchers Call For Ban on Autonomous Weapons
Technologists ask the UN to outlaw weapons that operate outside of human control.
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