In the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to slip on a pair of augmented-reality (AR) goggles instead of fumbling with a manual while trying to repair...Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2009
Microsoft and researchers from the University of Konstanz in Germany are collaborating to create Videomap, navigation software that incorporates videos of driving...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
A researcher who studied the voting patterns on Amazon.com, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and the book review site BookCrossings says a small group of users...MIT Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2009
New York University researchers have proposed Epothecary, a system that uses cell phones to authenticate and track drugs distributed in the developing world. The...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2009
WikiTrust, developed by University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) researchers, helps users evaluate information published on Wikipedia by automatically assigning...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
At the 9th annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, security researchers discussed alternatives to existing systems designed to help Internet users maintain...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2009
At the recent ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 conference, Microsoft Research's Visual Computing Group presented SkyFinder, a search system designed to analyze images of the sky...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2009
The obsolescence of graphics-processing clusters is being hastened by the rapidly accelerating data processing speed of supercomputers. Scientists at Argonne National...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2009
ACM's SIGGRAPH 2009 conference will showcase a quintet of innovative interface models. University of Tokyo researchers have created a touchable holographic interface...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
True Engineering Technology has developed semantic technology that gives meaning to numerical data to prevent number-related mixups. The company has launched Numberspace...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 30, 2009
New research on online dating sites shows that users can experience "cognitive overload" when faced with too many choices, causing them to make poorer decisions...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 17, 2009
A cell phone would be able to track the behavior of its user with SoundSense, new software developed by Dartmouth College researchers. SoundSense automatically...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 22, 2009
University of Washington researchers have developed an automated information extraction software engine that mines meaning out of more than 500 million Web pages...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 10, 2009
Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems researchers have developed a new screen technology that uses interlacing photodetector cells and display pixels to...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 5, 2009
A team of University of Tokyo researchers led by professor Takao Someya has engineered a stretchable display by linking organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2009
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have made computer memory devices using graphene, a flat sheet of hexagonally arranged carbon atoms capable...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
Texas A&M University lab's Robin Murphy (pictured) and colleagues have developed RubbleViewer, a tool for modeling a disaster scene that they say is more efficient...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 3, 2009
The massively parallel nature of DNA computing represents a significant threat to existing encryption schemes, but the technology also could be used to encrypt...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2009