Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.CNET From ACM News | June 20, 2013
In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information...The Associated Press From ACM News | June 20, 2013
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 19, 2013
It's definitely not a bird. Nor is it a plane. The garish orange piece of plastic, small enough to hold in the palm of a hand, could pass for a missing limb of...BBC News From ACM News | June 19, 2013
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.NASA From ACM News | June 19, 2013
Richard Van As was working in his home near Johannesburg, South Africa, in May of 2011, when he lost control of his table saw.NPR From ACM Careers | June 18, 2013
Bats, dolphins, and even some blind people use echoes to create a mental 3D map of their environment and where they are in it. A smartphone's chirp could soon let...New Scientist From ACM News | June 18, 2013
The mysterious comings and goings of our feline friends just got a little less mysterious. Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College loaded a group of cats in...The New York Times From ACM News | June 18, 2013
Andrew Ng wants to bring deep learning—an emerging computer science field that seeks to mimic the human brain with hardware and software into the DIY era.Wired From ACM News | June 17, 2013
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has overtaken the U.S.'s Titan system as the world's most powerful computer, according to the latest Top500 List, a twice-yearly...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2013
Next-generation supercomputers could benefit from an asynchronous programming model developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics.Fraunhofer Institute From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2013
On a dark and stormy night two weeks ago in Schenectady, N.Y., Ken Hislop was relaxing at home when his cellphone suddenly began buzzing in his pocket. It was an...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 17, 2013
Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin talks to Joel Brenner, former senior counsel at the National Security Agency, about whether the NSA can protect Americans'...NPR From ACM Opinion | June 17, 2013
Modern computer-memory technologies come with a trade-off. There is speedy but short-term storage for on-the-fly processing—random-access memory, or RAM—and slow...Nature From ACM News | June 17, 2013