Debate continues to be focused on how cyberattacks relate to war and foreign policy and what the international community's appropriate response to such incidents...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2012
This year's Annual Computer Poker Competition includes three poker games, including heads-up limit, heads-up no limit, and three-player limit Texas Hold 'Em. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 23, 2012
Hitachi and Fujitsu have pioneered a new technique in which a person's vein configurations are scanned as proof of identity, and the technology is being integrated...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 7, 2012
Disabilities such as epilepsy, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Parkinson’s disease are being treated with neuroimplants, says St. Louis University...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 27, 2012
IEEE's Erico Guizzo and Hizook.com founder Travis Deyle make several predictions regarding what will be big news in robotics this year.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 22, 2012
When Microsoft was developing its Kinect 3D sensor, a critical task was to calibrate its algorithms to rapidly and accurately recognize parts of the human body,...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2012
Researchers are starting to build chips in the third dimension, and many industry experts believe that this year the chip will start to become a cube. Building...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2012
On 6 August, peaceful protests over the police shooting of a local man in London's Tottenham district exploded into full-blown riots. During four days of assaults...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | November 2, 2011
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 20, 2011
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Technische Universitat Munchen have given a robot common sense. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 13, 2011
Gravity may be woven into the very fabric of space-time, but some objects seem nearly immune to its pull. Scale something down to the size of a dust particle...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | July 29, 2011
Commotion Wireless is the Open Technology Initiative's effort to develop mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) so that citizens of oppressive governments can maintain...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2011
Kilobots are fairly simple little robots about the size of a quarter that can move around on vibrating legs, blink their lights, and communicate with each other...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 22, 2011
McMaster University professor Gary Hasey is trying to devise more effective patient treatment strategies by interpreting physiological signals collected from patients'...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2011
Supercomputing performance upgrades are unlikely to be as spectacular in the next decade as they were in the last two, writes University of Notre Dame professor...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 7, 2011
Many computer scientists say the High-Performance Linpack test is not the best performance measurement for the world's top supercomputers. The new Graph500 benchmark...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2011
Many companies use content-delivery networks as a defense against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but Michael Rabinovich of Case Western Reserve University...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2011