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Research and Advances Jan 1 2013

Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images

We propose a new method to quickly and accurately predict human pose — the 3-D positions of body joints — from a single depth image, without depending on information from preceding frames.

Research and Advances Jan 1 2013

Illustrating How Mechanical Assemblies Work

How-things-work visualizations use a variety of visual techniques to depict the operation of complex mechanical assemblies. We present an automated approach for generating such visualizations.

Research and Advances Jan 1 2013

Technical Perspective: Visualization, Understanding, and Design

Photographs capture the moment; paintings convey perception, impression, and feeling; illustrations tell stories. Computer graphics aims to enrich all these artistic practices through technology. The following paper is a watershed in depiction, creating imagery that gets ideas across.

Doug DeCarlo and Matthew Stone

Research and Advances Jan 1 2013

Technical Perspective: Finding People in Depth

The following article by Shotton et al. describes a landmark computer vision system that takes a single depth image containing a person and automatically estimates the pose of the person's body in 3D.

James M. Rehg

Research and Advances Dec 1 2012

Moving Beyond the Turing Test

Computers interacting with, not imitating, humans is the way forward.

Robert M. French

News Dec 1 2012

Quantum Quests

Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.

Gregory Goth

Research and Advances Dec 1 2012

Natural Algorithms and Influence Systems

Algorithms lay the grounds for numerical simulations and, crucially, provide a powerful framework for their analysis. The new area of natural algorithms may reprise in the life sciences the role differential equations have long played in the physical sciences.

Bernard Chazelle

Research and Advances Dec 1 2012

Technical Perspective: Natural Algorithms in a Networked World

How do birds flock and fish school? How do individuals in a social network reach agreement, even though they are often only influenced by other like-minded individuals? How can one engineer a swarm of robots to behave like bird flocks?

Ali Jadbabaie

BLOG@CACM Nov 21 2012

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia . . .

Aria Haghighi, an award-winning natural language processing researcher, describes his trek from a tenure-track faculty job at UMass-Amherst to his decision to leave academia and found a startup.

Aria Haghighi

Research and Advances Nov 1 2012

The Frankencamera: An Experimental Platform For Computational Photography

Progress in computational photography has been hampered by the lack of a portable, programmable camera with sufficient image quality and computing power. To address this problem, we have designed and implemented the Frankencamera.

Research and Advances Nov 1 2012

The Challenges Ahead For Bio-Inspired ‘Soft’ Robotics

Soft materials may enable the automation of tasks beyond the capacities of current robotic technology.

Rolf Pfeifer, Max Lungarella, and Fumiya Iida

News Nov 1 2012

Major Update to ACM’s Computing Classification System

ACM has completed a major update of its Computing Classification System (CCS), which has served as the de facto standard for classifying the computing literature since 1964.

Bernard Rous

News Nov 1 2012

On the Digital Trail

Forensics experts increasingly use data from digital devices to solve crimes, fight lawsuits, and unravel accidents.

Samuel Greengard

Christopher Paul Neil and digital swirl photo

Research and Advances Nov 1 2012

Technical Perspective: Open Platforms For Computational Photography

A fundamental impediment to the widespread development and deployment of in-camera algorithms is the lack of a clean open architecture for controlling camera features and writing the corresponding real-time processing and viewing algorithms.

Richard Szeliski

Research and Advances Oct 1 2012

A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning

Tapping into the "folk knowledge" needed to advance machine learning applications.

Pedro Domingos

A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning, illustration

Opinion Oct 1 2012

Future Tense: Fermi’s Paradox and the End of the Universe

From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be. How to colonize the galaxy, one electron spin state at a time.

Geoffrey A. Landis

Fermi’s Paradox and the End of the Universe, photo illustration

News Oct 1 2012

Redesigning the Data Center

Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.

Gregory Mone

Facebook's data center in Prineville, Oregon

News Sep 18 2012

Ethical Robots: Let Their Artificial Consciences Be Their Guides

When lethal autonomous robots take their place on the field of battle and function independent of human control, what will govern the decisions of these next-gen weapons to either shoot or hold their fire?

Paul Hyman

News Sep 1 2012

Chips Go Upscale

After decades in Flatland, the end of Moore's Law is pushing semiconductors into the third dimension.

Gary Anthes

electronic 'glue' and stacked semiconductors, illustration

Research and Advances Sep 1 2012

Success Factors For Deploying Cloud Computing

Trust between client organization and cloud provider is a strong predictor of successful cloud deployment.

Gary Garrison, Sanghyun Kim, and Robin L. Wakefield

Success Factors for Deploying Cloud Computing, illustration

Research and Advances Sep 1 2012

Questioning Naturalism in 3D User Interfaces

Three-dimensional user interfaces are uniquely able to achieve superior interaction fidelity, and this naturalism can be a huge advantage.

Doug A. Bowman, Ryan P. McMahan, and Eric D. Ragan

Questioning Naturalism in 3D User Interfaces, illustration

Practice Sep 1 2012

All Your Database Are Belong To Us

In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.

Erik Meijer

Research and Advances Aug 1 2012

Process Mining

Using real event data to X-ray business processes helps ensure conformance between design and reality.

Wil Van Der Aalst

Research and Advances Aug 1 2012

Spreadsheet Data Manipulation Using Examples

Millions of computer end users need to perform tasks over large spreadsheet data, yet lack the programming knowledge to do such tasks automatically. We present a methodology that allows end users to automate such repetitive tasks.

Sumit Gulwani, William R. Harris, and Rishabh Singh

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