Will Barbie Pass the Turing Test?
Startups are beginning to empower toys with child-friendly speech recognition technology.
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Five are honored for exceptional achievements in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Google Takes On Mobile Payments
Android Pay follows hard on the heels of Apple Pay in the 'tap and pay' sector.
Feeling the way across new frontiers at the interface of people and machines.
Technical Perspective: Corralling Crowd Power
"Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside," introduces an exciting vision of using crowd workers to power an interactive system — here, a word processor — in accomplishing complex cognitive tasks.
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.
Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside
This paper introduces architectural and interaction patterns for integrating crowdsourced human contributions directly into user interfaces.
Surveillance and Falsification Implications For Open Source Intelligence Investigations
Legitimacy of surveillance is crucial to safeguarding validity of OSINT data as a tool for law-enforcement agencies.
The Dallas Cowboys is the first professional football team to use Virtual Reality in player training; others are following suit.
SF Reading For Computer Scientists: Summer 2015
Summer reading recommendations for computer scientists, courtesy of the SIGCSE 2015 Using Science Fiction in CS Courses BOF.
Head-Mounted Displays to Aid the Disabled
Products like the Oculus Rift and Google Glass could help ameliorate physical and perceptual impairments.
Passwords and the Evolution of Imperfect Authentication
Theory on passwords has lagged practice, where large providers use back-end smarts to survive with imperfect technology.
Exascale Computing and Big Data
Scientific discovery and engineering innovation requires unifying traditionally separated high-performance computing and big data analytics.
Using Rhetorical Structure in Sentiment Analysis
A deep, fine-grain analysis of rhetorical structure highlights crucial sentiment-carrying text segments.
Preserving the Digital Record of Computing History
Reflecting on the complexities associated with maintaining rapidly changing information technology.
The Dangers of Military Robots, the Risks of Online Voting
John Arquilla considers the evolution of defense drones, and why Duncan A. Buell thinks we are not ready for e-voting.
The Filter Bubble: Is It Real? Does It Matter?
What are the consequences of the same searches yielding different results for different people?
Researchers and engineers are exploring ways to help Unmanned Aerial Vehicles choose to fly themselves, and to fly more safely.
Smart Home Technologies Fit New Homes and Retrofits
Most home builders now offer smart technology options for new homes, but the aftermarket holds great promise, and greater affordability as well.
Technical Perspective: Virtual Reality in Your Living Room
The authors of IllumiRoom investigate what AR/VR could look like in a truly social environment — the living room.
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