To humans, computer intelligence is a puzzle, as if the machines have split personalities. They can be so remarkably smart at times, yet so bafflingly dumb at...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 7, 2011
In 1961, just after America's Sputnik moment, the world's first industrial robot debuted at a General Motors assembly plant in Trenton, N.J.Businessweek From ACM News | March 7, 2011
Whenever the military rolls out a new robot program, folks like to joke about SkyNet or the Rise of the Machines. But this time, the military really is starting...Wired From ACM News | March 4, 2011
Why aren't you letting Watson speak for himself today?
Watson is trained to answer questions for Jeopardy! It's not an interactive dialogue system, so it can't...Time From ACM News | March 4, 2011
John Prine wasn’t far off when he sang in "Living In the Future" that "we're all driving rocket ships and talking with our minds." We're still waiting for our...Wired From ACM News | March 2, 2011
Ask someone what they think the future of driving is, and the most likely response involves self-driving cars.Arstechnica From ACM News | February 24, 2011
A presidential report asserts the value of U.S. government investments in the cross-agency Networking and Information Technology Research...Tom Geller From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2011
Outreach programs and usability improvements are drawing many researchers to grid computing from disciplines that have not traditionally used such resources.Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2011
A pocket-size drone dubbed the Nano Hummingbird for the way it flaps its tiny robotic wings has been developed for the Pentagon by a Monrovia company as a mini...Los Angeles Times From ACM News | February 22, 2011
Some 10,000 people worldwide use a version of the Web like no other: it is operated by voice over the telephone. Called the "Spoken Web," it is the result of...Technology Review From ACM News | February 22, 2011
On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I've Got a Secret. He was...Time From ACM News | February 17, 2011
At the dawn of the modern computer era, two Pentagon-financed laboratories bracketed Stanford University. At one laboratory, a small group of scientists and engineers...The New York Times From ACM News | February 15, 2011
A medical robot; a Google-killer; a financial advisor; a tool for trawling legal documents; an aide for the intelligence services. These are just some of the...New Scientist From ACM News | February 15, 2011
His name is Watson. He's bad with puns. Great at math. And, next week, he will compete on the game show "Jeopardy!" against real, live, breathing, thinking humans...CNN From ACM News | February 9, 2011
In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing Test—an annual battle between the world’s most advanced artificial...The Atlantic From ACM News | February 8, 2011
In the category "What Do You Know?," for $1 million: This four-year-old upstart the size of a small R.V. has digested 200 million pages of data about everything...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2011
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing a revival, spurred by probabilistic programming that merges classic AI's logical principles with the power...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2011