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
Juniper security researcher Barnaby Jack canceled plans for a live demonstration of the insecurity of automatic teller machines (ATMs) at the upcoming Black Hat...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2009
When a cell phone or credit-card bill arrives, each call or purchase is itemized, making it possible to track trends in calling or spending. Within the next few...Technology Review From ACM News | June 30, 2009
IBM researchers are developing Watson, a natural-language processing system that will compete against human players in a game of Jeopardy! Demonstrations of the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 27, 2009
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) researchers will present a new way of defending against cross-site scripting attacks at the upcoming IEEE Symposium on Security...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 15, 2009
Researchers from around the world are meeting at a conference in Kobe, Japan, to discuss recent advancements in robotics. Among those on display will be RiSE, a...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 13, 2009
Office workers who make time to chat face to face with colleagues may be far more productive than those who rely on e-mail, the phone, or Facebook, suggests a study...Technology Review From ACM News | May 14, 2009
A team from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab at the United Arab Emirates University has created a robot with its own Facebook page in an effort to enable the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2009
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have successfully used a cluster of the same low-power processors that are used in netbooks and mobile devices to create...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 20, 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
Santa Fe Institute research fellow Nathan Eagle is launching txteagle, a project that will distribute tasks using cell phones in an effort to leverage an underused...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2009