Tracking balls in some sports--such as basketball, volleyball, and soccer--is significantly harder for machine-vision algorithms than it is in other sports. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2015
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a machine-vision algorithm that can objectively analyze children's drawings. ...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2015
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...Technology Review From ACM News | November 13, 2015
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says advances in machine learning would soon affect every product and service the company provides.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2015
Owners of three-dimensional printers will be able to fabricate plastic hair using a method developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2015
In a move that makes it possible to seamlessly combine your love of emojis with adorable animal videos, a group of researchers has built a prototype of a search...Technology Review From ACM News | October 30, 2015
Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use of an automated driving system, called Autopilot, in its Model S all-electric...Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2015
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man's spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant...Technology Review From ACM News | October 22, 2015
The behavior and interplay of two types of neurons in the brain helps give humans and other animals an uncanny ability to navigate by building a mental map of their...Technology Review From ACM News | October 20, 2015
In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar robots struggled to perform even simple tasks like climbing a flight of stairs; someimpeccable...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
Augmented or mixed reality, which renders virtual images in a view of the real world, can be spectacular to experience. But it may be even more fun when you bring...Technology Review From ACM News | October 13, 2015
When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, he's not talking about someone who arranges his record collection...Technology Review From ACM News | October 9, 2015
The University of Maryland's Autonomy, Robotics, and Cognition Lab is developing robots that can learn how to do a new job by watching others do it first. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
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