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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
SRI International has created a predictive assistant called Bright that reduces cognitive overload by providing specific information at the right time. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 1, 2013
Microsoft announced a new version of the Xbox One earlier this week, and with it an improved and essentially reinvented version of Kinect, the company's body- and...Technology Review From ACM Careers | May 23, 2013
One day, we may be able to check email or call a friend without ever touching a screen or even speaking to a disembodied helper.Technology Review From ACM News | April 29, 2013
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2013
Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data...Technology Review From ACM News | February 4, 2013
You might not have heard of iFlyTek. The company is hardly a household name in its domestic market of China, either.Technology Review From ACM News | November 19, 2012
One of modern physics' most cherished ideas is quantum chromodynamics, the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, how it binds quarks and gluons into protons...Technology Review From ACM News | October 10, 2012
Google's recently developed learning software, which can identify specific objects by watching YouTube videos, is now being used to make Google's products smarter...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2012
The short figure creeping around the Carnegie Mellon University campus store in a hooded sweatshirt recently isn't some shoplifter, but a robot taking inventory...Technology Review From ACM News | June 29, 2012
DARPA recently collaborated with Raytheon BBN researchers to develop a system that can follow global news events and provide intelligence analysts with useful summaries...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 27, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Patti Maes recently spoke with Technology Review to discuss the future of mobile technology. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 25, 2012
Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice, and then use it to speak a language that you don't.Technology Review From ACM News | March 13, 2012
There is growing evidence that information gleaned from online social networks can be processed and used in ways to gain an accurate profile of an individual.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2012
When Alan Turing was born 100 years ago, on June 23, 1912, a computer was not a thing—it was a person.Technology Review From ACM News | February 10, 2012
Although many AI researchers have adopted the idea that true intelligence requires a body, known as embodiment, a growing group of researchers, led by the University...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 6, 2012
A group of freelance Web researchers have created a Twitter bot, called a socialbot, that can fool users into thinking the bots are real people and serve as virtual...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2012
Tucked away in the basement of an iconic office tower shaped like four engine cylinders, engineer Werner Huber is telling me about the joy of driving.Technology Review From ACM News | January 23, 2012