Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
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The UK unveiled its robotics strategy last Tuesday, revealing a plan drawn up by the Technology Strategy Board that aims to spur the country on towards capturing...BBC News From ACM Careers | July 7, 2014
The National Museum of Computing's reconstruction of an early British digital computer will benefit from the resurfacing of circuit diagrams of the machine. BBC News From ACM TechNews | June 30, 2014
Pixar plans to make a non-commercial version of RenderMan freely available to students, institutions, researchers, developers, and for personal use. BBC News From ACM TechNews | June 6, 2014
With 2,000 drummers, 15,000 other performers and vast quantities of fireworks, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was a dazzling spectacle.BBC News From ACM News | May 6, 2014
The Philae lander, which Europe hopes to put on the surface of a comet later this year, has been re-activated after three years in deep-space hibernation.BBC News From ACM News | March 28, 2014
The U.K. government will provide 42 million UK pounds ($70 million US) to fund a research center that will carry the name of computer pioneer Alan Turing. BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 21, 2014
As diplomatic efforts are stepped up to ease tensions in Ukraine, security experts have warned that Kiev and Moscow are locked in a cyber stand-off.BBC News From ACM News | March 5, 2014