Intellectual Ventures builds computer simulations to better understand how malaria spreads and how it responds to eradication efforts.Scientific American From ACM News | May 25, 2010
By highlighting the limits of traditional military technology, the drawn-out conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have spurred the U.S. defense department to shake...Scientific American From ACM News | April 14, 2010
More than a year after being launched by hackers on a campaign to infect computers running Microsoft Windows, the Conficker worm's effects are still being felt....Scientific American From ACM News | February 4, 2010
Swarm intelligence is a branch of artificial intelligence that attempts to get computers and robots to mimic the highly efficient behavior of colony insects such...Scientific American From ACM News | January 13, 2010
When Nintendo's Wii game console debuted in November 2006, its motion-sensing handheld "Wiimotes" got players off the couch and onto their feet.
Now Microsoft...Scientific American From ACM News | January 8, 2010
Even the best electronic security may not be enough to protect sensitive data from dogged hackers, and researchers have been able to extract information from the...Scientific American From ACM TechNews | May 6, 2009