The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
More than 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic, but more than 700 survived. Those who did owed their escape to the newest communications technology of...The Atlantic From ACM News | April 16, 2012
Information technology is changing the way nations wage war, with philosophical and ethical perspectives struggling to keep pace with those changes. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2012
A mile or two away from Facebook's headquarters in Silicon Valley, Helen Nissenbaum of New York University was standing in a basement on Stanford's campus explaining...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2012
The first thing I noticed when I stepped into Recellular's Ann Arbor warehouse was the flags. From the rafters, the flags of the world oversee the processing of...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 9, 2012
This morning, if you opened your browser and went to NYTimes.com, an amazing thing happened in the milliseconds between your click and when the news appeared on...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 5, 2012
Imagine a scenario where your next job interview isn't face-to-face, but face-to-screen. There are no questions about your former work experience and office habits...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 8, 2012
After waiting for so long to see the numbers inside Facebook's success, it's easy to be overwhelmed by all the new data we have about the social network and company...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 3, 2012
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction.The Atlantic From ACM News | January 17, 2012
Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the past few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup Codecademy)...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | January 12, 2012
The data revolution has turned customers into unwitting business consultants, as our purchases and searches are tracked to improve everything from Web sites to...The Atlantic From ACM News | November 26, 2011
When a set of online teasers for a new camera called the Lytro appeared earlier this year, you could have been forgiven for seeing the invention as just another...The Atlantic From ACM News | November 11, 2011
NASA's Planetary Protection Officer Catharine A. Conley says that we've already contaminated the Red Planet with organisms from Earth.The Atlantic From ACM News | September 28, 2011
Late last month, after a drawn-out battle dating back to November, Houston finally turned off its 70 red-light cameras. City residents voted them down in a referendum...The Atlantic From ACM News | September 22, 2011
MicroMax. Spice. Tianyu. Maxx Mobile. Videocon. Karbonn. These are some of the hundreds of small cell phone makers that are eating up market share across the...The Atlantic From ACM News | September 20, 2011
The technology in question starts with "gigapixel" photography. Gigapixel photos are giant panoramas that themselves consist of hundreds of component mega-pixel...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | August 31, 2011
Happy Tau Day, everyone! Every June 28, a rogue fleet of math nerds makes its case for the abolition of arguably the most important irrational number in the world...The Atlantic From ACM News | June 28, 2011
Despite looming budget cuts, the library is flourishing and putting out some of the most innovative online projects in the country.The Atlantic From ACM News | June 22, 2011
The Navy SEALs who raided Osama bin Laden's hideout Sunday tapped into the "mother lode of intelligence," according to a U.S. official speaking to Politico. It...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 3, 2011