In a recent contest, three Artificial Intelligence programs played against a Russian player in StarCraft: Brood War.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2015
Supercomputing needs to be extended beyond the limits of Moore's Law, says Sandia National Laboratories' Erik DeBenedictis.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2015
Researchers at Iran's University of Tehran have unveiled a humanoid robot that can walk, mimic a person's arm gestures, and stand on one foot while bending backwards...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2015
A joint research project has yielded an interactive design system that enables hobbyists to create custom walking robots that can be printed in three dimensions...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2015
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 29, 2015
The swipe--without actually needing to touch a screen with a finger--will be the next dominant computer interface method, according to researchers in Germany. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 30, 2015
Laser-ranging (lidar) systems that most self-driving cars use to detect obstacles can be hacked by a setup costing about $60.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2015
New technological developments are fomenting an explosion in the diversity and application of robotics.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2015
Two Ph.D. students are seeking to determine how soon artificial intelligence might exceed the capabilities of the human brain. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation collaborated with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to find a better way to search for matching tatoos...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2015
Argonne National Laboratory researcher Stephen Wu has found it may be possible to generate spin current from insulators without a magnetic material.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2015
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2015
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | June 2, 2015
Researchers are studying a class of materials capable of switching from an insulating state to a conductive, metallic one. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2015
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2015
Researchers are developing a system that takes light from optic fiber, amplifies it, and beams it across a room to deliver data at more than 100 Gbps. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 19, 2015