An old aviators' joke goes like this: In the future, airline cockpit crews will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, the dog is there...Wired From ACM News | April 1, 2015
If NASA plans to send robots to other planets, it's going to need some new designs: ones that are easy to land, easy to move around, and easy to fix.Wired From ACM News | March 5, 2015
When Andrew Ng trained Google's army of computers to identify cat videos using artificial intelligence, he hit a few snags.Wired From ACM News | February 19, 2015
Diogo Mónica once wrote a short computer script that gave him a secret weapon in the war for San Francisco dinner reservations.Wired From ACM News | December 18, 2014
When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947, he suggested that a computer program’s resemblance to a human mind could be gauged by making it answer...Wired From ACM News | December 3, 2014
Birds are nice enough, unless you work at places like airports, farms, and landfills, in which case they’re the sworn enemy.Wired From ACM Careers | August 27, 2014
Whistleblower Edward Snowden claims the U.S. National Security Agency is developing an autonomous cyberdefense system.Wired News From ACM TechNews | August 15, 2014
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.Wired From ACM News | August 12, 2014
It was one of the most tedious jobs on the Internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street...Wired From ACM News | July 16, 2014
At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...Wired From ACM News | May 28, 2014
Walt Disney pioneered the art of animation and pushed the boundaries of robotics with his audio-animatronic presidents, but now the research lab that bears hisETH...Wired From ACM News | May 9, 2014
Even in today's rapidly evolving world of technology, there are few things that make your jaw drop when you see them in real life.Wired From ACM News | April 21, 2014
British mathematician Alan Turing is perhaps best known for the Turing test, which determines if a computer can be considered intelligent based on whether it can...Wired From ACM News | March 28, 2014