The Human Brain Project, led by Ecole Polytechnique Federale's Henry Markram, aims to build a complete computer model of the human brain, which the researchers...Spiegel Online From ACM TechNews | May 20, 2011
Carnegie Mellon University researcher Howie Choset worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Annette Hossoi to develop a snake-like robot that can...National Science Foundation From ACM TechNews | May 19, 2011
When I saw iRobot's Ava at CES this January, I was pretty insanely excited. Just a month or so prior I had been prodding iRobot CEO Colin Angle about building...This Is My Next From ACM News | May 19, 2011
Nanyang Technical University researchers are developing a new form of computing, based on DNA strands, which could be used to solve complex problems, such as strategic...PhysOrg.com From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2011
Google has a small fleet of robotic cars that since autumn have driven themselves for thousands of miles on the streets of Northern California without once striking...Scientific American From ACM News | May 18, 2011
After years of poring through images from space and debating where on Mars the next NASA rover should land, it comes down to four choices.The Associated Press From ACM News | May 16, 2011
Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobbying for legislation that would make Nevada the first state where they could be legally operated on public...The New York Times From ACM News | May 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
Advanced technologies, including stealth helicopters, helmet-mounted video cameras, and sophisticated data analysis, are helping find terrorists like Osama bin...Kirk L. Kroeker From ACM News | May 11, 2011
Two weekends ago, investigators announced that they had recovered the flight data recorder from the wreckage of Air France 447—a jetliner that crashed in the deep...BoingBoing From ACM News | May 11, 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
The goal of the FuturICT global knowledge accelerator platform proposed by European researchers is to understand how the world works so that imminent crises can...ETH Life From ACM TechNews | May 6, 2011
French researchers are developing robots with altruistic traits based on Hamilton's rule, which states that an organism is more likely to express altruism with...Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2011
The brain is our body’s natural multi-system parallel processing organ. Its job, on a continuous basis, is to compute a huge onslaught of incoming data and spit...Wired From ACM News | May 4, 2011
Mars is a dry, frigid, dusty, nearly airless place. A couple of billion years ago, though, it wasn't much different from Earth.TIME From ACM News | April 27, 2011
MIT announced that Joichi (“Joi” — pronounced “Joey”) Ito has been selected as the next director of the MIT Media Lab.MIT News Office From ACM News | April 26, 2011
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters...Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
With recent advances in laser rangefinders, faster algorithms, and open source robotic operating systems, researchers are increasing domestic robots' semantic and...Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011