The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
For better or worse, search engines have become the gateway to the Web. They help users to find information, advertisers to sell products—they even help hackers...New Scientist From ACM News | July 13, 2010
When Danny Hillis spent a day watching a top surgeon perform keyhole cancer surgery, he was left both exhilarated and depressed. The clinical precision with which...New Scientist From ACM News | July 13, 2010
Missed the winning goal in that crucial football match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Just get on the net and you'll find hours of user-generated video content of...New Scientist From ACM News | July 7, 2010
Dartmouth College researchers led by Emiliano Miluzzo say that sharing data gathered by cell phone sensors could improve the accuracy of the data and the applications...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 1, 2010
Forecasts about social and economic trends could be generated through the analysis of blogs and tweets, building on earlier research by Google and others to mine...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2010
Microsoft's long-awaited body-sensing technology, Project Natal, got a new name last week at the E3 expo in Los Angeles. Kinect, as it is now called, is a set-top...New Scientist From ACM News | June 22, 2010
Software engineer Thomas Sharpless and colleagues have developed Panini, software that can make wide-angled digital photos with perfect perspective using a technique...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 18, 2010
University of California, San Diego artificial intelligence researcher Luke Barrington is developing software that can analyze a piece of music and compile information...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2010
Fashion crime it may be, but a multicoloured dayglo glove could bring Minority Report-style computing to your home PC.New Scientist From ACM News | June 9, 2010
Chinese University of Hong Kong computer scientists have developed software that depicts physically impossible images in three-dimensional virtual environments. ...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 2, 2010
Blasting zombies may seem to have little to do with serious research, but video game hardware is helping scientists in a variety of ways including helping them...New Scientist From ACM News | May 10, 2010
If you have a smartphone, you probably have a slice of Steve Furber's brain in your pocket. By the time you read this, his 1-billion-neuron silicon brain will be...New Scientist From ACM News | May 4, 2010
Your eyes tell you that your hand is locked in a vice-like mechanical device, but your fingertips tell you you're stroking fur. Welcome to the world of haptics,...New Scientist From ACM News | April 27, 2010
Five U.K. academic institutions have collaborated to create the Tales of Things, a Web site based on the concept of the Internet of things that enables users to...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2010
A prototype of a handheld projector created virtual characters that interacted with the real world at the recent Virtual Reality 2010 meeting in Waltham, MA.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 19, 2010
Imagine entering your living room and sliding your foot purposefully over a particular stretch of floor. Your hi-fi system springs to life, pumping out the sounds...New Scientist From ACM News | April 13, 2010
Challenges don't get much bigger than trying to create artificial consciousness. Some doubt if it can be done--or if it ever should. Bolder researchers are notAntonio...New Scientist From ACM News | April 7, 2010
Even in an era of global networks and cheap travel, international communication still faces one great barrier: we don't all speak the same language. But that gap...New Scientist From ACM News | March 18, 2010
Researchers are developing software that can make conversing with a computer more productive. Existing automatic speech recognition technology is unreliable. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 19, 2010
We may all like to consider ourselves free spirits. But a study of the traces left by 50,000 cellphone users over three months has conclusively proved otherwise...New Scientist From ACM News | February 19, 2010