Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program beat a Chinese world champion in the first of three Go games held this week.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2017
Improvements in hardware, the availability of massive amounts of data, and algorithmic upgrades are among the factors supporting better machine translation.
Don Monroe From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2017
AlphaGo, Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence program, will compete against the Chinese world champion Go player Ke Jie in a three-game series.
Agence France-Presse From ACM TechNews | May 22, 2017
Disney researchers say they have developed a process that transforms high-resolution animated content into a novel video format to enable immersive viewing.
EurekAlert From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2017
If I asked you "how many computing devices do you own?" your mind will probably first jump to your PCs and laptops at home, and then to your smartphones and tablets...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 17, 2017
A new study points to anxieties about the potential for Wi-Fi-enabled Internet-connected toys to infringe on children's privacy.
UW Today From ACM TechNews | May 12, 2017
Imperial College London researchers have automated the generation of three-dimensional morphable models used to represent human faces.
Science From ACM TechNews | May 3, 2017
The Makeup Lamps system tracks an actor's movements and expressions during live stage performances so the actor's face can be painted with light.
EurekAlert From ACM TechNews | May 2, 2017
Slitheen is a new system that uses decoy routing to conceal banned websites inside of innocuous cat videos.
NextGov.com From ACM TechNews | May 1, 2017
In the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election, the country's social media was awash in press reports of dubious origin.
Bloomberg News From ACM News | May 1, 2017
New neural network-based detection algorithms can determine what movies people who use streaming services are viewing.
The Economist From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2017
Jean-Marc Alliot at the Computer Science Research Institute of Toulouse in France has developed a system that directly ranks chess players based on the quality...CNRS From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2017
Disney researchers say they have developed a new method that makes it possible to realistically simulate hair by observing real hair in motion.
Phys.org From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2017
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...The New York Times Magazine From ACM News | April 25, 2017
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are motivating researchers to design and build new chips to support different computing models.
Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2017