The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology, and climate change.BBC News From ACM News | November 27, 2012
The U.K. branch of an American company has developed a hi-tech software programme it believes can help detect and prevent potentially dangerous passengers and cargo...BBC News From ACM News | November 26, 2012
In the early morning of 16 June, 2012, a top-secret spaceplane made a picture-perfect landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.BBC News From ACM News | November 26, 2012
The world's oldest original working digital computer, the Witch, has been restored after a three-year effort and was recently put on display at The National Museum...BBC News From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2012
The world's oldest original working digital computer is going on display at The National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire.BBC News From ACM News | November 21, 2012
Mocup is a tiny, adorable remote-controlled robot built from a Lego Mindstorms set with an off-the-shelf Beagleboard computer for a brain and a webcam for an eye...BBC News From ACM News | November 16, 2012
"It once was a small step... now it's six big wheels," exclaimed Curiosity's Twitter account after the Nasa rover landed on Mars in early August. The message itself...BBC News From ACM News | November 8, 2012
Apple's iPhone and its rivals may have introduced touchscreens to the masses, but now a raft of technologies promise to change the way we interact with computers...BBC News From ACM News | October 24, 2012
Imagine how different the first pictures sent from the Mars Rover would have been if there had been a software failure.BBC News From ACM News | October 5, 2012
GCHQ director Iain Lobban recently gave a speech noting the many enduring lessons that could be drawn from Alan Turing's work.BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2012
Details of an immersive video games display system that projects images of the title's environment around a player's room have been revealed in a U.S. patent belonging...BBC News From ACM News | September 13, 2012
Cybercriminals have opened a new front in their battle to infect computers with malware—PC production lines.BBC News From ACM News | September 13, 2012
When a pilot in a Eurofighter Typhoon jet glances down, he doesn't see a steel-grey floor. Instead he sees clouds, and maybe sheep and cows in green fields below...BBC News From ACM News | September 5, 2012
Meet the man who wants to create architecture that understands everything about us — down to our emotional states — and learns from its mistakes.BBC News From ACM News | July 23, 2012
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg researchers announced that they used silicon carbide to create graphene. BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2012