Aram Harrow of the University of Bristol in England along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Avinatan Hassidim and Seth Lloyd believe that encoding...Science News From ACM TechNews | October 21, 2009
Boston University physicists Lev Levitin and Tommaso Toffoli have demonstrated that if processors continue to improve in accordance with Moore's Law, an unbreakable...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | October 21, 2009
The Expeditions in Computing program provides scientists with the funding to work on ambitious, often multidisciplinary research.Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2009
Computer scientists have found a way to bootstrap science, using evolutionary computation to find fundamental meaning in massive amounts of raw data.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2009
Supercomputers have long been an indispensable, albeit expensive, tool for researchers who need to make sense of vast amounts of data. One way that researchers...Scientific American From ACM News | October 19, 2009
Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today. This work might one... From ACM News | October 16, 2009
A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications... From ICT Results | October 16, 2009
European researchers who created an ultra-fast, extremely high-resolution video camera chip have enabled dozens of medical applications, including one scenario... From ICT Results | October 12, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted...The Associated Press From ACM News | October 8, 2009
The mastery of light through technology was the theme of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored breakthroughs in fiber...The New York Times From ACM News | October 6, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Sam Hasinoff, Fredo Durand, and William Freeman, along with University of Toronto researcher Kiriakos Kutulakos...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2009
Researchers led by Cornell University's Mark Foster report that they have developed a prototype device that could significantly boost the volume of information...BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM News | October 2, 2009
Microscopic carbon nanotubes may have the potential to transport electricity faster and over greater distances with minimal loss of energy, according to new research...Honda From ACM News | October 2, 2009
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton and the University of Michigan claim to have broken the Vanish security system, a research prototype...CACM Staff From ACM News | September 30, 2009
A surveillance system for monitoring whether cars and pedestrians are acting normally at crosswalks has been developed by researchers at Spain's University of Castilla...Plataforma SINC From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2009
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed the first full-star simulation of the conditions inside a...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2009
Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called "excitons" that operate at commercially cold temperatures,...C San Diego News Center From ACM News | September 28, 2009
The creation of a cyborg insect army has just taken a step closer to reality.
A research team at the University of California Berkeley recently announced thatFrontiers...Wired News From ACM News | September 24, 2009
The secret to the success of BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos and The Ensemble, first- and second-place winners of the Netflix Prize, was teamwork.
The Netflix Prize...Wired News From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2009