The future of search may look a little like Kirsten Goldenberg, a 14-year-old high-school student in Los Angeles. When she needs help with a homework problem,...Technology Review From ACM News | December 9, 2011
The stealth C.I.A. drone that crashed deep inside Iranian territory last week was part of a stepped-up surveillance program that has frequently sent the United...The New York Times From ACM News | December 8, 2011
Ever wished you could be in two places at once? Now you can share your body with a telepresence robot created by Dzmitry Tsetserukou of Toyohashi University of...New Scientist From ACM News | December 8, 2011
How will users hack this one? The Kinect is a device that inherently grows and expands: Microsoft itself has come around to acknowledging that the oft-hackedreally...Technology Review From ACM News | December 8, 2011
A few months ago, scientists at Willow Garage, a robotics company in Menlo Park, Calif., invited a few ordinary people into their labs and gave them an assignment...The Daily Beast From ACM News | December 7, 2011
IBM researchers have developed the first prototype of racetrack computer memory, which combines on one chip all of the components needed to read, store, and write...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2011
When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water...Fast Company From ACM News | December 7, 2011
Ever since the early days of modern computing in the 1940s, the biological metaphor has been irresistible.The New York Times From ACM News | December 7, 2011
With President Obama in town last week, things were busy for the New York Police Department's Harbor Unit. Federal security agents were disseminating lists of...The New York Times From ACM News | December 7, 2011
As robots seek to mimic humans' ability to see and hear, they have a secret weapon in Microsoft's Kinect game motion-sensing controller.CNET From ACM News | December 7, 2011
A new breed of robots based on spineless creatures such as starfish and caterpillars could change the way humans interact with machines.Time From ACM News | December 7, 2011
To develop more efficient supercomputers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers are studying consumer electronics such as microwave ovens, cameras,...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | December 6, 2011
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology have launched an open source system for robot hardware designed to serve as a library that robot developers...Eindhoven niversity of Technology (Netherlands) From ACM TechNews | December 6, 2011
In a cluttered chip-making laboratory on Stanford's campus, Max Shulaker is producing the world's smallest computer circuits by hand.The New York Times From ACM News | December 6, 2011
Continually needing to add computing power to its microprocessors, Santa Clara behemoth Intel this year announced it was venturing beyond its traditional method...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | December 6, 2011
Sometimes the best inventions are just for fun. At the 2011 Siggraph Asia event, a leading conference on computer graphics and techniques, researchers will be...New Scientist From ACM News | December 6, 2011
Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images...Jet Propulsion Laboratory From ACM News | December 5, 2011
BGI, based in China, is the world’s largest genomics research institute, with 167 DNA sequencers producing the equivalent of 2,000 human genomes a day.The New York Times From ACM News | December 2, 2011
In an interview, Frederico Faggin, who led the design and development of the first microprocessor in 1970, says he sees a future in which quantum and cognitive...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | December 1, 2011