Researchers have developed an algorithm that follows a person's mobility patterns and also analyzes the patterns of people in the user's social network. In a study...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2012
A prototype headlight system can detect raindrops or snow streaks and "dis-illuminate" them, thereby increasing visibility on the road ahead.Technology Review From ACM News | July 9, 2012
Many readers will have watched the final of the Euro 2012 soccer championships last Sunday in which Spain demolished a tired Italian team by 4 goals to nil. The...Technology Review From ACM News | July 5, 2012
George Church is an imposing figure—over six feet tall, with a large, rectangular face bordered by a brown and silver nest of beard and topped by a thick mop of...Technology Review From ACM News | July 2, 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
At first glance, Thad Starner does not look out of place at Google. A pioneering researcher in the field of wearable computing, Starner is a big, charming man with...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2012
Searching for hotels in cities they've never visited, people often turn to customer-written reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor. But how do they know those...Technology Review From ACM News | June 25, 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
The brain is the most extraordinary of computing machines. It carries out tasks as a matter of routine that would fry the circuits of the most powerful supercomputers...Technology Review From ACM News | June 22, 2012
If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world...Technology Review From ACM News | June 14, 2012
Two weeks ago today, computer security labs in Iran, Russia, and Hungary announced the discovery of Flame, "the most complex malware ever found," according to Hungary's...Technology Review From ACM News | June 12, 2012
Disney has a new technology, called Touche, that can turn any object, including the human body, into a touch-sensitive surface that recognizes not only when contact...Technology Review From ACM News | May 18, 2012
Conversations between people include a lot more than just words. All sorts of visual and aural cues indicate each party's state of mind and make for a productive...Technology Review From ACM News | May 14, 2012
When you learned about the Doppler Effect in high school physics class—the wave frequency shift that occurs when the source of the wave is moving, easily illustrated...Technology Review From ACM News | May 7, 2012
The Web has fundamentally changed the business of advertising in just a few years. So it stands to reason that the process of creating ads is bound to change, too...Technology Review From ACM News | April 27, 2012
Back in the 1960s, the IBM physicist Rolf Landauer showed that computation comes with a cost: every (irreversible) calculation, he said, always burns through a...Technology Review From ACM News | March 29, 2012
Mining personal data to discover what people care about has become big business for companies such as Facebook and Google. Now a project from Microsoft Research...Technology Review From ACM News | March 22, 2012