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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Computer science majors have the best 20-year net return on investment out of all of the degrees in the new College ROI Report. Stanford, UC-Berkeley, and MIT...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2015
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to enable groups of drones to operate collaboratively under the supervision of a single human commander...Network World From ACM TechNews | January 30, 2015
If you think the latest enterprise and consumer network and computer technologies rolling into your data center and being snuck into your offices by end users are...Network World From ACM News | January 21, 2015
An IBM study on the future of automotive technologies found self-healing cars and connections to the Internet of Things are the wave of the future. Network World From ACM TechNews | January 16, 2015
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program which focuses on transduction, the conversion of energy from one form to another. Network World From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2015
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is doing research for its Future Applications of Sense Technology for Fidelitous Wearable Devices program...Network World From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2014
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to improve networking and security at the wide area network edge.Network World From ACM TechNews | November 18, 2014
Researchers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts have developed a tool that examines how true and false stories propagate on Twitter. Network World From ACM TechNews | October 28, 2014
A new initiative by Google seeks to form an open standard for the Internet of Things, dubbed the Physical Web by the company's Chrome team. Network World From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2014
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is using the 25th anniversary of his invention of the World Wide Web to push for an Internet bill of rights.Network World From ACM TechNews | October 1, 2014
New, free iOS and Android software identifies which apps drain the most power from device batteries. Network World From ACM TechNews | September 17, 2014
Security researchers with permission from local road authorities hacked into nearly 100 wirelessly networked traffic lights and were able to change the lights on...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 25, 2014
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says it has demonstrated an all-silicon, microchip-sized system on a chip that runs at 94 GHz.Network World From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2014
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to develop technology that will enable computers to think like humans. Network World From ACM TechNews | June 25, 2014
Researchers say they have successfully transmitted data without link layer flow control overloading throughput with retransmission requests. Network World From ACM TechNews | June 2, 2014
New speech-to-speech translation technology from Microsoft becomes better at learning a language as it learns additional languages. Network World From ACM TechNews | May 29, 2014
An expert in machine learning and Bayesian statistics at Princeton University is the recipient of the 2013 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computer Sciences. Network World From ACM TechNews | April 4, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed WearScript, a Javascript environment that runs on Google Glass. Network World From ACM TechNews | April 2, 2014
The TED organization has partnered with X Prize to develop a competition to have an AI-based robot "deliver a compelling TED Talk with no human involvement." Network World From ACM TechNews | March 26, 2014
Range Networks is working on an open source project that aims to shift mobile network creation from proprietary hardware to inexpensive commodity hardware. Network World From ACM TechNews | March 20, 2014