The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Flush with recent successes, and pushed by even newer technology, AI systems could get much smarter.
Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2017
Over the next decade, the population of Estonia is expected to soar more than 600% as the country becomes the first in the world to open its borders to an influx...Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2015
You would be surprised by how much they know about you, and what they are doing with your information.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2015
Parallel computing has become increasingly important as chipmakers put more and more processor cores on individual chips.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | October 27, 2014
Advances on multiple fronts are bringing big improvements to the way computers learn, increasing the accuracy of speech and vision systems.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2013
Drilling down to more detail on a computer screen, or moving out to see the context, is basic. But it's hardly simple and, after 20 years, innovations are still...Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2012
After decades in Flatland, the end of Moore's Law is pushing semiconductors into the third dimension.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2012
Propelled by a proliferation of mobile devices and social networks, an enhanced family of Web specifications is bringing new power to developers and new capabilities...Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2012
Improvements in camera hardware, image processing, camera-photographer interfaces, and image viewing are advancing the state of the art in digital photography.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2012
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2011
Leslie Valiant talks about machine learning; parallel computing, and his quest for simplicity.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011
It's not easy to generate a string of numbers that lack any pattern or rule, or even to define exactly what randomness means.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2011
More than 50 years of computing literature is augmented, streamlined, and joined to powerful new tools for retrieval and analysis.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2011
Pablo Parrilo has discovered a new approach to convex optimization that creates order out of chaos in complex nonlinear systems.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2011