It can take weeks to reprogram an industrial robot to perform a complicated new task, which makes retooling a modern manufacturing line painfully expensive and...Technology Review From ACM News | October 5, 2015
When NASA scientists announced that instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sensed signs of liquid water seeping on the Martian surface, they meant a solution...Technology Review From ACM News | October 2, 2015
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are developing a robot that will be able to assemble an IKEA chair. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 1, 2015
Computational linguistics has dramatically changed the way researchers study and understand language.Technology Review From ACM News | September 22, 2015
Several hundred users of Facebook's mobile messaging app late last month were given access to M, the social network's new artificial intelligence-based virtual...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2015
Imperial College London's Matthew Lai has developed a new artificial intelligence machine which he says can play chess at a master level.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2015
I woke up on Saturday to a heartbreaking front-page article in the New York Times about a terminally ill young woman who chooses to freeze her brain.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 16, 2015
Researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan have developed a photon gun and a single photon detector that uses the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2015
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took...Technology Review From ACM News | September 15, 2015
The ultimate nightmare for critics of the Iran nuclear deal being debated in Congress is that somehow, despite the agreement and all its built-in safeguards, Iran...Technology Review From ACM News | September 11, 2015
Researchers at Telefonica Research in Spain have developed an algorithm that enables a smartphone to determine whether or not its user is bored. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2015
Robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing assistive robots to help visually impaired travelers navigate the smart cities of the future.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2015
IBM is testing a prototype computer system capable of learning to predict the severity of air pollution in different parts of Beijing.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2015
Uber is collaborating with the University of Arizona on a mapping and safety project for self-driving cars.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
European researchers have developed a robot that is learning to make pizzas and pancakes by reading through WikiHow's written directions. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2015
Researchers at Harvard University and the State University of New York at Buffalo are developing robots able to function outside of ideal, predictable environments...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2015
Programs that can confirm data and hold or use funds could help enable an insidious dimension of cryptocurrency's criminalization, according to newly released research...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2015