Patterns of compulsive smartphone use suggest how to kick the habit
Credit: Jonathan Tran/University of Washington Everywhere you look, people are looking at screens. In the decade since smartphones have become ...
Tag: Theory/Design
Computing leaders recognized for outstanding impact on the field
ACM acknowledges contributions of time and talent with prestigious service awardsCredit: Courtesy, ACM ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today ...
Premier human-computer interaction conference opens May 4 in Glasgow
ACM CHI showcases tomorrow's technologies New York, NY, April 23, 2019 - The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group ...
Giving robots a better feel for object manipulation
Model improves a robot's ability to mold materials into shapes and interact with liquids and solid objects A new learning ...
World-record quantum computing result for Sydney teams
Theory group is driving advances in global efforts to build useful machinesCredit: University of Sydney A world-record result in reducing ...
Rice advances the art of protein blacksmithing
Researchers forge new computational tools to make more accurate predictions of protein structuresCredit: Rice University/Wikipedia HOUSTON - (April 15, 2019) ...
PSU researchers develop blockchain protocol to prevent counterfeit pharmaceutical sales
Portland State University researcher Nirupama Bulusu wants to prevent counterfeit pharmaceuticals from flooding the market. Bulusu recently published a blockchain ...
Abundance of information narrows our collective attention span
New study in Nature Communications finds increasingly narrow peaks of collective attention over time, supporting a 'social acceleration' occurring across ...
ACM Thacker Breakthrough Award recognizes contributions that shaped cloud computing
Mendel Rosenblum transformed datacenters by reinventing virtual machinesCredit: Courtesy, Stanford University ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that ...
Study explores how technology can help prompt positive memories for people with depression
Researchers have provided a crucial first step towards understanding how computing technology could be used to help people with depression ...
The cost of computation
For decades, physicists have wrestled with understanding the thermodynamic cost of manipulating information, what we would now call computing. How ...
New technique cuts AI training time by more than 60 percent
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a technique that reduces training time for deep learning networks by more than ...
SUTD uncovers the power of dynamically rewiring swarm robotic systems
Credit: SUTD Our world is filled with hopelessly complicated systems: transportation systems, financial systems, biological systems, etc. These so-called complex ...
Advance boosts efficiency of flash storage in data centers
New architecture promises to cut in half the energy and physical space required to store and manage user data MIT ...
Skyrmions could provide next generation data storage
Credit: University of Birmingham Scientists at the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Colorado, Boulder have moved a step closer to ...
ORNL investigates complex uranium oxides with help from CADES resources
Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working to understand ...
Changing the relationship between disability and technology
A major new research project is harnessing a diverse range of disciplines to examine how technologists can learn from people ...
Fathers of deep learning revolution receive the ACM A.M. Turing Award
Bengio, Hinton and LeCun ushered in major breakthroughs in artificial intelligenceCredit: Bengio (Photo by Maryse Boyce), Hinton (Photo by Keith ...
Dartmouth’s Xia Zhou Wins 2019 ACM SIGMOBILE RockStar Award
Credit: Dartmouth College/Eli Burakian HANOVER, N.H. -- March 26, 2019 -- Xia Zhou, an associate professor of computer science at ...
Spotting hacks automatically, before the hackers do
Algorithms can now find bugs in computer chips before they are manufacturedCredit: Koziel/TUK Kaiserslautern, Germany--In early 2018, cybersecurity researchers discovered ...