Microsoft researchers consider it vital for encryption upgrades to be developed now, to anticipate quantum computing's decryption potential.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2015
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists...Technology Review From ACM News | August 4, 2015
Massively open online courses have taken off in a big way in India, where they are meeting a need for education, particularly technical education. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2015
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have developed a method of matching infrared images and visible light images of the same face. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2015
Many cars today now come with limited voice control, but more elaborate and robust systems could be coming to cars soon. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 21, 2015
Brown University researchers have developed an approach that enables robots to quickly determine the sequence of actions that will work in a particular environment...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2015
In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been...Technology Review From ACM News | July 13, 2015
Anyone can now create "bullet-time" movies using collaborative photography techniques on their smartphones. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2015
Stanford University professor Gordon Wetzstein and his colleagues are developing a virtual reality headset that is designed to solve one of the persistent problems...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 7, 2015
Google Street View offers panoramic views of more or less any city street in much of the developed world, as well as views along countless footpaths, inside shopping...Technology Review From ACM News | July 7, 2015
Imagine you slack off at work and read up online about the latest Gibson 1959 Les Paul electric guitar replica.Technology Review From ACM News | July 2, 2015
The importance of tracking motorist behavior will grow as more automated vehicles are rolled out, especially as it relates to the issue of assigning liability in...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 24, 2015
There are simple steps that can be taken to make software more secure and resilient, writes Carnegie Mellon University professor Jean Yang. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2015
Understanding how the brain works—or doesn't, as the case may be—depends on deciphering the patterns of electrical signals its neurons produce.Technology Review From ACM News | June 19, 2015
The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative." Technology Review From ACM News | June 17, 2015
Researchers say they have built a deep-learning machine that outperforms the average human's ability to answer verbal reasoning questions. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2015
A group of computer scientists, crowdsourcing pioneers, and visionaries has created a roadmap for research into human computation. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 5, 2015
A machine-learning technique that has already given computers an eerie ability to recognize speech and categorize images is now creeping into industries ranging...Technology Review From ACM News | June 2, 2015
Social robots like the quasi-anthropomorphic Jibo and Amazon's far more utilitarian Echo are beginning to find their places in our living rooms.Technology Review From ACM News | May 29, 2015
A team of researchers has developed a machine-vision algorithm that can identify and highlight beautiful images.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 27, 2015