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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 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 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
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
Google and Microsoft don't share a stage often, being increasingly fierce competitors in areas such as Web search, mobile, and cloud computing. But the rivals...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 18, 2011
Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 14, 2011
Brain-machine interfaces have made it possible for monkeys and some humans to control robotic limbs using just their thoughts. But ideally, a person using an...Technology Review From ACM News | October 12, 2011
The Japanese automaker is teaming up with Swiss researchers to build a car that will predict its driver's intentions.Technology Review From ACM News | October 5, 2011
If anyone can preview the future of computing, it should be Alfred Spector, Google's director of research. Spector's team focuses on the most challenging areas...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 22, 2011
The buzz starts low and quickly gets louder as a toy quadricopter flies in low over the buildings. It might look like flight enthusiasts having fun, but it could...Technology Review From ACM News | September 9, 2011
Inside the headquarters of networking giant Cisco in San Jose, California, lies a technology showcase where executives can test out advanced technologies like...Technology Review From ACM News | August 26, 2011
A microchip with about as much brain power as a garden worm might not seem very impressive, compared with the blindingly fast chips in modern personal computers...Technology Review From ACM News | August 19, 2011
Many high-end cars today come equipped with brake assist systems, which help a driver use the brakes correctly depending on particular conditions in an emergency...Technology Review From ACM News | August 2, 2011
Henry Evans recently shaved himself for the first time since a stroke left him mute and partly paralyzed 10 years ago. His achievement came thanks to researchers...Technology Review From ACM News | July 19, 2011
Google Voice Search for desktop computers isn't much more than the company porting a technology that's been on mobile phones for a while to PCs. But don't write...Technology Review From ACM News | June 16, 2011
Once a year, at the International Computer Olympiad, teams pit their AI software against others' in a variety of nerd-appropriate sports: chess, go, backgammon...Technology Review From ACM News | June 13, 2011
Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks says a new generation of industrial robots could be enabled by better machine vision.Technology Review From ACM News | May 13, 2011
An artificial intelligence panel discussion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's recent Brains, Minds and Machines symposium called for a return to the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 6, 2011
Early adopters can now get a sneak peek at the future of the Web by downloading the latest prerelease, or "beta," version of Chrome, Google's Web browser. One...Technology Review From ACM News | April 7, 2011
Some 10,000 people worldwide use a version of the Web like no other: it is operated by voice over the telephone. Called the "Spoken Web," it is the result of...Technology Review From ACM News | February 22, 2011
MIT researchers have developed TurKit, a toolkit that enables users to write algorithms to coordinate online workers using Javascript and create human intelligence...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2010
Artificial intelligence improves a wheelchair system that could give paralyzed people greater mobility.Technology Review From ACM News | September 13, 2010