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Seeing the Big Picture
From Communications of the ACM

Seeing the Big Picture

Lensless cameras and other advances in digital imaging, computational optics, signal processing, and big data are transforming how we think about photography.

A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious
From ACM Opinion

A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious

It's a question that’s perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from?

Will Ibm's Watson ­sher in a New Era of Cognitive Computing?
From ACM Opinion

Will Ibm's Watson ­sher in a New Era of Cognitive Computing?

Computers as we know them have are close to reaching an inflection point—the next generation is in sight but not quite within our grasp.

Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
From ACM News

Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet

Welcome to the age of supercomputing for everyone.

Computer Science Team Wins Challenge to Improve Reading Process of Reviews
From ACM TechNews

Computer Science Team Wins Challenge to Improve Reading Process of Reviews

Virginia Tech researchers say they have developed a better method of summarizing text through the mining or retrieval of key data, which won a Yelp-sponsored contest...

Monkey Thoughts Move Virtual Arms—human-Machine Mind-Meld Next?
From ACM News

Monkey Thoughts Move Virtual Arms—human-Machine Mind-Meld Next?

Rhesus monkeys in a lab are using their brains to move two arms of a virtual primate on a screen, moving researchers one step closer towards outfitting paralyzed...

Superfast Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot 'wins' Every Time
From ACM TechNews

Superfast Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot 'wins' Every Time

Japanese scientists have developed a robot that can choose a hand shape for the rock-paper-scissors game almost at the same time as a human.

Gimball: A Crash-Happy Flying Robot
From ACM TechNews

Gimball: A Crash-Happy Flying Robot

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne have developed Gimball, a spherical flying robot that is protected by an elastic cage that...

Why We Should Think About the Threat of Artificial Intelligence
From ACM Opinion

Why We Should Think About the Threat of Artificial Intelligence

If the New York Times's latest article is to be believed, artificial intelligence is moving so fast it sometimes seems almost "magical."

Japan: A Haven For Humanoid Robots
From ACM News

Japan: A Haven For Humanoid Robots

Noriko Arai is not the first woman to spotlight the hazard that boys and their toys can present, and she won't be the last.

Making Robots More Like ­S
From ACM News

Making Robots More Like ­S

On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting...

Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think
From ACM Opinion

Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think

A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and...

Software Beats Captcha, the Web's 'are You Human?' Test
From ACM TechNews

Software Beats Captcha, the Web's 'are You Human?' Test

California-based startup Vicarious says it has developed software that can successfully crack any text-based CAPTCHA program, defeating Google's reCAPTCHA program...

Software Firm Claims Breakthrough in Computer Vision Will Lead to Better AI
From ACM News

Software Firm Claims Breakthrough in Computer Vision Will Lead to Better AI

Luis von Ahn has heard it all before.

Craig Venter: Why I Put My Name in Synthetic Genomes
From ACM Opinion

Craig Venter: Why I Put My Name in Synthetic Genomes

How has the definition of life changed during your lifetime?

Angry Birds – The Rise of the Machines
From ACM TechNews

Angry Birds – The Rise of the Machines

A research team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology won an international artificial intelligence contest at a recent conference with software that replicates...

The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think
From ACM Opinion

The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think

"It depends on what you mean by artificial intelligence."

Why Facebook Is Teaching Its Machines to Think Like Humans
From ACM TechNews

Why Facebook Is Teaching Its Machines to Think Like Humans

Facebook is turning to deep learning to teach computers to more closely imitate the human brain, with the goal of gaining greater insight into individual users. ...

Two-Legged Robots Learn to Walk Like a Human
From ACM TechNews

Two-Legged Robots Learn to Walk Like a Human

An international team of researchers from seven institutions are teaching two-legged robots a stable, robust human way of walking. 

Brain Decoding: Reading Minds
From ACM News

Brain Decoding: Reading Minds

Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated on the screen of a computer that is trying to decode...
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