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Queen's University Belfast and Imperial College London have launched a program that will conduct research into the interaction of light with matter at the nanoscale...Queen's niversity Belfast From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2009
An international team of researchers has designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create...Virginia Commonwealth University From ACM News | September 2, 2009
Gaze into the electron microscope display in Frances Ross’s laboratory here and it is possible to persuade yourself that Dr. Ross, a 21st-century materials scientist...The New York Times From ACM News | September 1, 2009
A $30 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will enable the University of Chicago to expand and extend until 2011 the operation of TeraGrid, a...niversity of Chicago From ACM News | September 1, 2009
The Masterworks program at ACM's SC09 conference, which takes place Nov. 14-20 in Portland, Ore., will address how high performance computing (HPC) is being used...Business Wire From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
Modern hospitals provide a glimpse into how people will interact with machines in the future, according to a new Gartner report on the future of human-computer...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
A new study on the use of radio-frequency identification tags on individual retail items shows that inventory accuracy decreases or diminishes over time with conventional...niversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville From ACM News | August 31, 2009
Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory have received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science... niversity of Illinois at Chicago From ACM News | August 28, 2009
New and experienced orthopedic surgeons can improve their surgical skills with an innovative software surveillance system that tracks their instruments during surgery...Methodist Hospital, Houston From ACM News | August 28, 2009
Scientists at the Universidade Nova De Lisboa, in Portugal, and the Universitas Indonesia, in Indonesia, are researching artificial intelligence and the application...AlphaGalileo From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2009
Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a Ph.D. program in usable privacy and security...Carnegie Mellon News From ACM TechNews | August 27, 2009
Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program...The New York Times From ACM News | August 27, 2009
Fujitsu is building a 10-petaflop supercomputer based on its upcoming Sparc64 VIIIfx processor. The new processor has eight processor cores, with each running...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2009
Researchers working in medical nanorobotics are creating technologies that could lead to novel health-care applications, such as new ways of accessing areas of...Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
The promise of parallel computing has run afoul of the harsh reality of Amdahl's Law, which puts a ceiling on the benefit of converting sequential code to parallel...Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
The European Union-funded GridEcon project has developed a platform for trading computing resources and buying and selling standardized computing resources. GridEcon's...ICT Results From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2009
Canadian researchers have developed a robot capable of detecting tumor tissue in half the time it takes a human surgeon and with 40 percent greater accuracy while...EurekAlert From ACM TechNews | August 25, 2009
U.S. government, industry, and academia are using cybersecurity competitions to interest high school and college students about the career opportunities in cybersecurity...Paul Hyman From ACM News | August 24, 2009
The continuance of Moore's Law—the axiom that the number of devices that can be economically installed on a processor chip doubles every other year—will mainly...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | August 19, 2009
Russian hackers stole U.S. identities and software tools for use in a cyberattack against Georgian government Web sites during the war between Russia and Georgia...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2009