Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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Our most accurate clocks are probing a key tenet of Einstein's theory of relativity: the idea that time isn't absolute.
New Scientist From ACM News | March 23, 2017
By making DNA endlessly change, researchers have shown how a biological computer might one day solve problems much faster than conventional computers or even ...New Scientist From ACM News | March 3, 2017
The same type of artificial intelligence that mastered the ancient game of Go could help wrestle with the amazing complexity of quantum systems containing billions...New Scientist From ACM News | February 13, 2017
A wearable device under development at the University of Michigan provides continuous authentication for voice assistants such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2017
New studies explore why women experience more motion sickness than men while using virtual reality.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 19, 2016
An artificial intelligence system can predict how a scene will unfold and dream up a vision of the immediate future.
New Scientist From ACM News | December 5, 2016
Researchers at Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford are using deep-learning techniques to create a lip-reading system that can perform better than professional...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2016
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.New Scientist From ACM News | November 7, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2016
The European Union's VERE project aims to dissolve the boundary between the human body and a surrogate. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2016
Self-driving cars can learn the rules of the road by studying virtual traffic on videogames such as Grand Theft Auto V, according to a new study.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 1, 2016
This may have happened to you. You idly browse a pair of shoes online one morning, and for the rest of the week, those shoes follow you across the Internet, appearing...New Scientist From ACM News | October 31, 2016
Sometimes breaking up is the right thing to do. On Sunday at 17:20 GMT, the twin spacecraft of the first stage of the ExoMars mission split in two – one of the...New Scientist From ACM News | October 17, 2016
Humble bacterial spores are taking us closer to an age of DNA information storage, thanks to new ways of protecting archived data from corruption as well as from...New Scientist From ACM News | September 22, 2016
Some of the best lessons come from the school of hard knocks. But some kit is too delicate or expensive to be subjected to this.New Scientist From ACM News | August 12, 2016