Imagine an oak tree in a field of wheat, silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky on a dreamy sunny afternoon.Technology Review From ACM News | May 28, 2015
Demonstrations of augmented-reality displays typically involve tricking you into seeing animated content such as monsters and robots that aren’t really there.Technology Review From ACM News | May 22, 2015
Computer scientists have long known that evolution is an algorithmic process that has little to do with the nature of the beasts it creates.Technology Review From ACM News | May 21, 2015
How many types of cells are there in the human body? Textbooks say a couple of hundred. But the true number is undoubtedly far larger.Technology Review From ACM News | May 19, 2015
Chinese search giant Baidu says it has invented a powerful supercomputer that brings new muscle to an artificial-intelligence technique giving software more power...Technology Review From ACM News | May 15, 2015
In a month's time, a motley assortment of robots will attempt to navigate a punishing obstacle course laid out in a fairground park in Pomona, California.Technology Review From ACM News | May 12, 2015
Memristors, exotic electronic devices only confirmed to exist in 2008, have been used to create a chip that borrows design points from the brain.Technology Review From ACM News | May 7, 2015
Researchers have separated human voices from the background in a wide range of songs using some of the latest advances associated with deep neural networks. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2015
The cocktail party effect is the ability to focus on a specific human voice while filtering out other voices or background noise.Technology Review From ACM News | May 1, 2015
A group of volunteer "digital humanitarians" is using an experimental Web platform to crowdsource rumor verification following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2015
Before you read this story, try to answer the following question: Who was the first person to text you today?Technology Review From ACM News | April 29, 2015
University of Washington in Seattle researchers are studying the issues associated with the communications technology involved in telesurgery. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2015
The White House and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials support arguments by the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence leaders that encryption technology...Technology Review From ACM News | April 23, 2015
Back in the 1880s, the American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed something strange about the book of logarithmic tables in his library—the earlier pages were much...Technology Review From ACM News | April 22, 2015
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
Sending pulses of electricity through the brain via implanted electrodes—a procedure known as deep brain stimulation—can relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's and...Technology Review From ACM News | April 16, 2015
For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the...Technology Review From ACM News | April 14, 2015
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2015
We have self-driving cars, knowledgeable digital assistants, and software capable of putting names to faces as well as any expert.Technology Review From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Google's Pagerank algorithm has become one of the most famous in computer science. It was originally designed to rank websites according to their importance by...Technology Review From ACM News | March 16, 2015