Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 30, 2015
The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge is designed to assess how well cooperative robot systems perform as part of a simulated emergency-response operation.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 18, 2015
Laser-ranging (lidar) systems that most self-driving cars use to detect obstacles can be hacked by a setup costing about $60.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2015
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation collaborated with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to find a better way to search for matching tatoos...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2015
A team at Stanford University's Center for Design Research has developed the Real Road Autonomous Driving Simulation that fools human participants into thinking...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2015
An experiment to see how mall patrons react to a social robot surprisingly found children were hostile toward the robot. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2015
As big data technologies advance and the challenges of extracting meaning from these data sets shift, computer scientists will need new vocabulary. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2015
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 2, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric says its new noise suppression technology can improve the quality of hands-free phone communication in cars. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2015
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2015
A security vulnerability in the iPhone 5 series of smartphone could be exploited by malicious software and compromise a user's personal information via Siri.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2015
We've always known that the ATLAS DRC humanoid robot was due for some serious upgrades before the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, because having a robot that's...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 21, 2015
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2014
Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo and the University of British Columbia have developed Spheree, a spherical display that enables users to see and interact...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2014
Microsoft says its upcoming Skype Translator app will translate multilingual conversations in real time. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 27, 2014
Researchers affiliated with South Korea's Hanyang University are developing a system to fully automate the parking process, including helping find a parking space...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 2, 2014
AgencyGlass is a wearable device that produces "virtual eyes" to give the wearer a semblance of friendliness and approachability. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 16, 2014