Most of us take it for granted that math works—that scientists can devise formulas to describe subatomic events or that engineers can calculate paths for spacecraft...Scientific American From ACM News | August 3, 2011
Can't wait for 4G to become the ubiquitous standard for mobile communication? On the edge of your seat for the unveiling of Microsoft's secret Menlo Project and...Wired From ACM News | August 2, 2011
A Canadian company developing a quantum computer made news in May when it sold a system to defense manufacturer Lockheed-Martin for $10 million, though skeptics...Neil Savage From ACM News | August 2, 2011
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling toward its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial...NASA From ACM News | August 2, 2011
The University of Massachusetts' Design Camps is aimed at middle and high school students and teaches them to create and program robots, build circuits, and complete....S. News & World Report From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2011
The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency has launched the Social Media in Strategic Communication program, which aims to develop...InformationWeek From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2011
Cornell University researchers are teaching robots to understand the context of their surroundings so that they can pick out individual objects in a room. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2011
Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of California, Santa Barbara say they have made a major advance in predicting and eliminating...University of British Columbia From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2011
NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater. The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, is scheduled...NASA From ACM News | July 22, 2011
Paying for the morning commute will soon be accomplished by the wave of a smartphone. State and local governments are joining Internet, credit card, and wireless...Businessweek From ACM News | July 22, 2011
Autonomous machines, networks, and robots should publish their own suggestions for upgrading the technology on the Internet, says the University of Southampton's...AlphaGalileo From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2011
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. On Friday, July 15, Dawn became the first...NASA From ACM News | July 20, 2011
It's typical for Microsoft to show off its latest wares at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, if only to amp up partners' enthusiasm for hawking the software...CNET From ACM News | July 20, 2011
The twin challenges of parallelism and energy consumption are enlivening supercomputers' progress.Tom Geller From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2011
Researchers at Old Dominion University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed Memento, browser-based software that can find a Web site as it appeared...Washington Post From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2011
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.Newsweek From ACM News | July 19, 2011
An ambitious experiment to make a glass sphere exist in two places at once could provide the most sensitive test of quantum theory yet.New Scientist From ACM News | July 19, 2011
Today, fiber optics technology transports information in the form of classical data to homes and businesses. But researchers are currently working on ways to...PhysOrg From ACM News | July 19, 2011
Tang. Velcro. Teflon. Each is popularly known as a product of the space age, and yet none of them represent actual NASA tech spinoffs. The real truth behind the...MSNBC From ACM News | July 18, 2011