Carnegie Mellon University professor Manuela Veloso believes robots can be made fully autonomous by designing them to ask for help when necessary. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 12, 2014
One of the great challenges of neuroscience is to understand the short-term working memory in the human brain.Technology Review From ACM News | October 30, 2014
A mocked-up set of busy streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will provide the sternest test yet for self-driving cars.Technology Review From ACM News | October 7, 2014
Christof Koch says it is possible people will some day create conscious machines, but they may not look as expected. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 3, 2014
The White House said that President Obama's BRAIN Initiative is generating interest from companies and philanthropies in a sign of what it calls a wider partnership...Technology Review From ACM News | October 1, 2014
Back in the 16th century, a Spanish Benedictine monk called Pietro Ponce pioneered the seemingly magical art of lip reading.Technology Review From ACM News | September 12, 2014
Computer researchers say machines are now almost as adept at recognizing objects as humans, thanks to an algorithm created by University of Toronto scientists in...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2014
Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...Technology Review From ACM News | August 22, 2014
IBM researchers are experimenting with a room where executives can go to discuss business problems with a version of the Watson supercomputing system. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 8, 2014
Google's Chris Urmson, who heads the company's self-driving car program, said the project is entering its most difficult phase so far: building vehicles with the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 25, 2014
Could a person who is paralyzed and unable to speak, like physicist Stephen Hawking, use a brain implant to carry on a conversation?Technology Review From ACM News | July 10, 2014
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2014
The hypothalamus is a small structure deep in the brain that, among other functions, coördinates sensory inputs—the appearance of a rival, for example—with instinctual...Technology Review From ACM News | June 17, 2014
Artificial intelligence is guided by the far-off goal of having software match humans at important tasks.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround in which he introduced three laws that governed the behaviour of robots...Technology Review From ACM News | May 16, 2014