Computer scientists have long known that evolution is an algorithmic process that has little to do with the nature of the beasts it creates.Technology Review From ACM News | May 21, 2015
Chinese search giant Baidu says it has invented a powerful supercomputer that brings new muscle to an artificial-intelligence technique giving software more power...Technology Review From ACM News | May 15, 2015
In a month's time, a motley assortment of robots will attempt to navigate a punishing obstacle course laid out in a fairground park in Pomona, California.Technology Review From ACM News | May 12, 2015
Memristors, exotic electronic devices only confirmed to exist in 2008, have been used to create a chip that borrows design points from the brain.Technology Review From ACM News | May 7, 2015
The cocktail party effect is the ability to focus on a specific human voice while filtering out other voices or background noise.Technology Review From ACM News | May 1, 2015
Before you read this story, try to answer the following question: Who was the first person to text you today?Technology Review From ACM News | April 29, 2015
The White House and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials support arguments by the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence leaders that encryption technology...Technology Review From ACM News | April 23, 2015
Back in the 1880s, the American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed something strange about the book of logarithmic tables in his library—the earlier pages were much...Technology Review From ACM News | April 22, 2015
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
Sending pulses of electricity through the brain via implanted electrodes—a procedure known as deep brain stimulation—can relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's and...Technology Review From ACM News | April 16, 2015
For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the...Technology Review From ACM News | April 14, 2015
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2015
We have self-driving cars, knowledgeable digital assistants, and software capable of putting names to faces as well as any expert.Technology Review From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Google's Pagerank algorithm has become one of the most famous in computer science. It was originally designed to rank websites according to their importance by...Technology Review From ACM News | March 16, 2015
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.Technology Review From ACM News | March 6, 2015
Indian Institute of Technology researchers have created a flavor network in which food ingredients are linked if they appear together in the same recipe. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 2, 2015
A Canadian startup is working to make monsters, fish, and other creatures seem to come alive inside a tabletop box.Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 27, 2015
During a famous scene in Star Wars, Princess Leia has R2D2 play a holographic video message in midair in which she pleads for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the near...Technology Review From ACM News | February 25, 2015