Aki Ross was the computer-generated heroine of the 2001 film “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.” The reaction at the time presaged today’s debate over A.I.

ACM has named 71 new Fellows. ACM Fellows are registered members of the society and were selected by their peers for achieving remarkable results through their technical innovations and/or service to ...

Graphics in games don’t improve in a steady, gentle slope. They jump. Someone ships a look that feels like it arrived from ...

Terrain Descriptors for Landscape Synthesis, Analysis and Simulation. Oscar Argudo, Eric Guérin, Hugo Schott, Eric Galin. Eurographics 2025 State of the Art. Authors' implementation. Abstract: ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

From Tron, the original 1982 film’s groundbreaking VFX to Tron: Legacy’s digital dazzle a full generation later, the franchise has always been a step ahead of reality. Now, after over a decade later, ...

Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. Calvin Alexander thought he had done everything the Louisiana parole board asked of him to earn an early release ...