Pedro Carpena, a physicist at the University of Malaga in Spain, has used a mathematical technique for studying disorder in quantum systems to extract keywords...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2009
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Materials Science Division researchers have made a major advancement in spintronics by controlling the spin states of highly...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) theorists have demonstrated that a type of software operation, believed to be a solution to the fundamental...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers led by professor Angela Belcher have developed batteries by genetically engineering viruses to build the...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2009
Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm that can identify regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws. The researchers tested...Cornell University From ACM TechNews | April 3, 2009
Researchers at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's School of Computing are using modular neural networks to model cognitive functions related to awareness and...Universidad Politecnica de Madrid From ACM TechNews | April 3, 2009
Researchers from Dortmound, St. Petersburg, Washington, and the Rurh-Universitaet-Bochum (RUB) in Germany have succeeded in aligning electron spin. The researchers...Ruhr-niversity Bochum (Germany) From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
Researchers from the University of Burgos (UBU) have used heuristic algorithms and the "taboo search" method to improve bus service in Burgos, Spain. The approach...AlphaGalileo From ACM TechNews | March 20, 2009
ACM has announced the winners of five prestigious awards honoring innovations in computing technology that benefit society through their profound impact on the...AScribe Newswire From ACM News | March 18, 2009
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Barbara Liskov of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) the winner of the 2008 ACM A.M. Turing...PR Newswire From ACM News | March 10, 2009
Thomas Larsson, a researcher at Sweden's Malardalen University, has developed a new approach for calculating collisions involving animated objects in computer games...Malardalen University (Sweden) From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2009
Berkeley Lab News CenterResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University have demonstrated that electrical...Berkeley Lab News Center From ACM TechNews | March 5, 2009
National Science FoundationThe dream of quantum computing has come a step closer to reality through National Science Foundation-funded research into atomic manipulation...National Science Foundation From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2009
Virtualization is moving out of the data center and making inroads with mobile computing, security, and software delivery.Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) wants to develop highly interpretive mathematical and computational algorithms and techniques to help the U.S. government...Network World From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2009
For the success of a major research university, which is better: large, well-funded laboratory empires with many investigators working toward the same end, or the...Duke niversity From ACM News | December 5, 2008
Quantum computers could potentially improve upon the capabilities of conventional computers in modeling and predicting complex chemical reactions, according to...Harvard University Gazette From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2008
ACM's Gordon Bell Prize for special achievement in high performance computing has been won by a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence...Berkeley Lab From ACM TechNews | November 26, 2008
Computational complexity and intractability may help scientists better understand how humans process information and make decisions.David Lindley From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2008