Until now, the neuroscience programs at DARPA, the mad science wing of the Department of Defense, have focused on technologies for warfighters who have returned...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 13, 2018
Researchers at the National University of Defense Technology in China have built a photonic quantum processor, which generates and manipulates two photonically...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2018
Cameras used to be their own devices with lenses and film and trips to the drug store to get the pictures developed. Then, they disappeared into phones, tablets...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 4, 2018
Have you had your genome sequenced yet? Millions of people around the world already have, and by 2025 that number could reach a billion.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | August 24, 2018
A startup plans to install four slabs of concrete with embedded sensors at an intersection in Denver, CO.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 22, 2018
Researchers have demonstrated proof of principle for a method of controlling graphene's rotation and the dynamic variance of its electrical, optical, and mechanical...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2018
Researchers have developed all-optical logic gates from nanowires in a novel way, a significant step in the development of on-chip, all-optical logic components...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2018
Roboticists from the University of Colorado, Boulder are investigating the use of augmented reality to improve human-robot collaboration.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2018
A sprawling robot at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel upgrades an earlier design's wheel-leg mobility so it can scale impediments.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2018
Today, U.S. supercomputer advocates are cheering, because for the first time since 2012, a U.S. supercomputer—Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed ...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 26, 2018
It's summertime here at IEEE Spectrum, and that means it's time for our fourth interactive ranking of the top programming languages.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 7, 2018
Cornell University's Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship Lab is developing a robot designed to explore textual communication.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 17, 2018
Computer scientists have now invented a way to hide secret messages in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing the shapes of letters.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | May 16, 2018
Tornado survivors often compare the terrifying, deafening roars of a twister's furious winds to the sound of a freight train. But storms also emit sounds that are...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | May 9, 2018
In 1981, Richard Feynman suggested that a quantum computer might be able to simulate the evolution of quantum systems much better than classical computers. Except...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | April 18, 2018
Solar cells convert light to electricity. Image sensors also convert light to electricity. If you could do them both at the same time in the same chip, you'd have...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | April 13, 2018
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have used electrical stimulation and neural patterns to improve the storage of new information in the brain, which...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2018