It is easy to take for granted the advancements in our mobile phones, wearable electronics, and other gadgets. But advances in computing rely on processes that...Technology Review From ACM News | April 14, 2016
The field of artificial intelligence has experienced a striking spurt of progress in recent years, with software becoming much better at understanding images, speech...Technology Review From ACM News | April 6, 2016
The history of mathematics is in some ways a study of the human mind and how it has understood the world.Technology Review From ACM News | April 4, 2016
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...Technology Review From ACM News | April 1, 2016
Sports scientists now can gather vast amounts of data on players and the action while games are in progress, but they still struggle to process the data in meaningful...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2016
U.S. politicians have long threatened America's enemies with tanks, planes, submarines, and nuclear missiles. Last week defense secretary Ashton Carter leveled...Technology Review From ACM News | March 7, 2016
Rather than painstakingly typing in passwords on your smartphone, you may eventually just swipe a shape or other pattern on its display to authenticate yourself...Technology Review From ACM News | March 4, 2016
Here's a tricky task. Pick a photograph from the Web at random. Now try to work out where it was taken using only the image itself.Technology Review From ACM News | February 26, 2016
On Friday, January 8, several high-level officials from the Obama administration—including the attorney general, the White House chief of staff, and the directors...Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 24, 2016
Mathematical analysis has demonstrated the validity of the claim that most people's friends have more friends than they do. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2016
Every day computers make many millions of electronic trades by performing delicate calculations aimed at eking out a tiny edge in terms of speed or efficiency.Technology Review From ACM News | February 4, 2016
A few years ago, a breakthrough in machine learning suddenly enabled computers to recognize objects shown in photographs with unprecedented—almost spooky—accuracy...Technology Review From ACM News | January 26, 2016
Nothing beats talking to another person face-to-face, but a group of researchers are considering whether a life-size projection of a person that appears to be sitting...Technology Review From ACM News | January 21, 2016
Buy a new car these days and the chances are that it will be fitted with an array of driver-assistance technologies.Technology Review From ACM News | January 15, 2016
Research from Arizona State University answers a question that has stumped mathematicians pondering the properties of programmable materials. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 14, 2016
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...Technology Review From ACM News | January 13, 2016