Behind the recovery in business spending is a surge in purchases of the computers that form the backbone of the Internet, as companies scramble to meet growing...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 20, 2010
Researchers at Microsoft have come up with a way to create easy-to-remember passwords without making a system more vulnerable to hackers.Technology Review From ACM News | July 20, 2010
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a system that will enable large-scale, computer-hosting infrastructure providers to more accurately predict...NCS News From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2010
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued the final guidelines that will determine how doctors, hospitals and other medical care facilities...Computerworld From ACM News | July 13, 2010
Japan's Grape-DR supercomputer tops the June 2010 edition of Green500.org's Little Green500 list, which ranks the performance per unit power consumption of smaller...Tech-On! From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2010
The U.S. government is launching a program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running critical infrastructure...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 8, 2010
The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida.The New York Times From ACM News | July 6, 2010
Of all the senses, touch as been somewhat neglected as a human means of interacting with machines. Labs around the world are now racing to close the gap while...BBC News From ACM News | July 6, 2010
Taiwan's biggest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom, has signed an agreement with Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop maker, to jointly...PC World From ACM News | July 6, 2010
Digital reading technology has evolved from the original Amazon Kindle, which cost $400 and displayed four shades of gray, to devices that are much less expensive...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | July 1, 2010
A synthetic form of DNA developed by University of Reading chemists has the potential to revolutionize the way digital information is processed and stored. niversity of Reading From ACM TechNews | June 30, 2010
A prototype system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Hyperion Data Intensive Testbed uses more than 100 terabytes of flash memory to demonstrate how flash...Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | June 30, 2010
DARPA announced an initiative to realize a quintillion calculations/second computer to "meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance, higher...Network World From ACM TechNews | June 29, 2010
The Tokyo Institute of Technology will build Japan's first 2.4-petaflop supercomputer, the TSUBAME 2.0, a world-class research tool for users in both the industrial...MarketWatch From ACM News | June 29, 2010
After the math department at the University of Texas noticed some of its Dell computers failing, Dell examined the machines. The company came up with an unusual...The New York Times From ACM News | June 29, 2010
European researchers working on the StratusLab project are developing software designed to improve distributed computing infrastructures in an effort to enable...Trinity College Dublin From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2010
A new network design that avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones could boost capacity while reducing power consumption.MIT News Office From ACM News | June 28, 2010
The Magellan cloud computing testbed funded by the U.S. Department of Energy is dedicated to studying the advantages and disadvantages of the cloud computing model...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2010
Sixty years ago this week, the National Bureau of Standards dedicated the first programmable computer in U.S. history.National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | June 24, 2010