Big data is touted as a cure-all for challenges in business, government, and healthcare, but as disease outbreak predictions show, big data often fails.Logan Kugler From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2016
Search engine developers are moving beyond the problem of document analysis, toward the elusive goal of figuring out what people really want.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2016
Harry Brignull, a user-experience consultant in Britain who helps websites and apps develop consumer-friendly features, has a professional bone to pick with sites...The New York Times From ACM News | May 16, 2016
Dartmouth College professors will explore the potential for algorithms to produce human-quality dance music, sonnets, and short stories. The Conversation From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2016
Researchers aim to apply artificial intelligence and machine-learning methods to take cybersecurity to a new, higher, and better level.Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2016
The next frontier for game-playing artificial intelligence could be the popular real-time strategy game "StarCraft."The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | April 25, 2016
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 25, 2016
There is something special happening in a generic office park in an uninspiring suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Wired From ACM News | April 21, 2016
The extremely popular Minecraft computer game is turning children into a generation of computing tinkerers and engineers.The New York Times Magazine From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2016
The Supreme Court on Monday declined (PDF) to hear a challenge from the Authors Guild and other writers claiming Google's scanning of their books amounts to wanton...Ars Technica From ACM News | April 18, 2016
North Carolina State University professor Rodney Waschka takes data from pictures, book covers, audio, and other sources to make a portrait of a person. Technician Online (NC) From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2016
The University of California, Irvine is launching an official e-sports initiative this fall, which it says is the first of its kind for a public research university...UCI News From ACM TechNews | April 4, 2016
Researchers are working to develop a guided tour of an area of Mars in a "mixed-reality" interactive exhibit called "Destination: Mars."NASA News From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2016