The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to five research institutions to develop a computer program for detecting weak areas in cryptographic...Watertown Daily Times (NY) From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
Several petascale computers are up and running, and others are sure to follow. All of them face many unique challenges in trying to harness a petaflop.Graeme Stemp-Morlock From ACM News | July 29, 2009
A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks. The online logic puzzle...niversity of Michigan From ACM News | July 29, 2009
A $5 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to five Chicago area universities and the Chicago Public Schools will train high school teacher leaders on...niversity of Illinois at Chicago From ACM News | July 29, 2009
Solid-state lighting won't supplant the lightbulb until it can overcome the mysterious malady known as "droop."IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | July 29, 2009
Powerful new radio technologies that promise blisteringly fast WiFi have been given a boost by a team of European researchers’ cutting-edge work on miniscule microchips... From ICT Results | July 29, 2009
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has partnered with Jardine OneSolution, IBM, and Red Hat to install a green supercomputer at its new High Performance Computing...Nanyang Technological niversity From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
Montana State University (MSU) computer engineering students will soon be able to control laboratory equipment through their home computers. A two-year, $148,000...Montana State niversity From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
A new satellite, planned for launch in 2012, will contain a flight computer built with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that can be completely reconfigured...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab and Information Networking Institute (INI) are hosting several faculty members for the annual Information Assurance Capacity...Carnegie Mellon News From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
In the year since security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS), which could allow hackers to redirect traffic from...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
Software development is a complex and sophisticated process that can take entire teams years to develop a program. Building, testing and releasing software consumes... From ICT Results | July 28, 2009
Researchers from Rice University and North Carolina State University say that Moore's Law could be prolonged by attaching molecules to the surface of silicon....Rice niversity From ACM TechNews | July 24, 2009
Several companies and researchers have offered predictions for when the supply of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted. Hurricane Electric, for example, recently introduced...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
High-speed computer networks have the potential to transform the healthcare industry, according to Mike McGill, program director for Internet2's Health Sciences...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
Michigan Technological University's (MTU's) MentorNet program matches students and new educators with mentors in either educational or professional positions to... From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
Low-power design will be a key theme of the 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC), with Synopsys' Cary Chin agreeing that "low power is one of the biggest challenges...EE Times From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have spurred a group of computer scientists to consider whether research that might lead to a loss of human control over...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
A number of highly skilled immigrants are preparing to leave the U.S. as the nation's economy slows. With the U.S. unemployment rate approaching double digits,...Business Week From ACM News | July 27, 2009
A Web tool that gives homeowners a virtual representation of how new products look in their home promises to help textile producers boost product development.AsIsKnown... From ICT Results | July 27, 2009