Proton-Based Transistor Breakthrough
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a proton-based transistor that might eventually enable machines to communicate with living things.
Bob Violino
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Franz Alt, one of the founders of ACM and its president from 1950 to 1952, died July 21, 2011 at the age of 100.
Long Tail Criticism Might Affect E-Business Strategies
The Long Tail theory embraced by online businesses has taken some recent criticism, raising questions about whether businesses should change their e-strategies.
Materials Restore Functionality in a Snap
Researchers are working on "self-healing" electronic materials that could lead in time to computer components that can fix themselves when they break.
Shape-Shifting Material Suggests Morphable Hardware
Electronic devices that can change their physical shape depending on the needs of the user might sound far-fetched. But recent research advances on several fronts have…
How Computing Is Changing Journalism
Computing has influenced many fields in a big way, and journalism is one of them. There’s an ongoing trend away from print media and toward digital, and this is…
CRA's Computing Community Consortium hosted a day-long symposium to discuss the important computing advances of the last several decades and how to sustain that track…
A diverse, international group of more than 200 attendees met at the Rebooting Computing Summit to address the problems confronting computer science.
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