Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a way to make biomolecular computers fashioned from DNA and other biological molecules more user...Weizmann Institute of Science From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Quantum computing will give people and institutions an enormous amount of computing power, but it will also make their data vulnerable to attack. For Julia Kempe...American Friends of Tel Aviv niversity From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2009
Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | July 30, 2009
A well-established physical law formulated by Max Planck describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law...MIT News From ACM News | July 30, 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
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
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
Engineers in the United Kingdom and China are working to find alternative ways of creating the microelectronic components of the future. Surrey University physicists...The Engineer Online From ACM TechNews | July 23, 2009
Recommender systems that provide consumers with customized options have redefined e-commerce, and are spreading to other fields.Don Monroe From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2009
University of Wollongong professor Willy Susilo has received a grant to develop cryptographic algorithms that will stay secure against quantum computer attacks....Australian IT From ACM TechNews | July 17, 2009
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new type of fiber that is capable of producing images without the need for a lens...ScienceNOW From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2009
Research funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research could lead to advancements in data encryption and wide-area, high-resolution photography. The...Air Force Office of Scientific Research From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2009
The lack of a rigorous mathematical foundation for electronics impelled engineer Leon Chua to develop one, which led to the formulation of the memristor — a theoretical...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2009
Physicists at the University of Bonn say they have demonstrated for the first time the "quantum walk" effect in an experiment with cesium. At the microscopic level...Bonn niversity From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2009
Scientists have theorized that many technologies would function better if they were aware of their users' emotional states, and progress in this field includes...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 10, 2009
Quantum technologies have become the Holy Grail of the IT industry with research projects springing up throughout Europe and all over the world. Now a major European... From ICT Results | July 10, 2009
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have developed an optical transistor that uses one laser beam to control another, potentially forming...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2009
The EvoGrid envisioned by Bruce Damer and a group of international advisers is a simulation of the primordial soup that they intend to use to gain insights about...Space.com From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2009
The Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) School of Computing's Ontology Engineering Group has developed an ontology-based semantic search engine for government...niversidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2009
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | July 8, 2009