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
On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid...NASA From ACM News | July 15, 2011
University of Bologna researchers have developed an automatic car accident detection system that could reduce the number of vehicles involved in a crash by up to...niversity of Bologna From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2011
The robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks often begins speeches by reaching into his pocket, fiddling with some loose change, finding a quarter, pulling it out and twirling...The New York Times From ACM News | July 12, 2011
China recently launched its newest supercomputer, known as the Tianhe-1 system, using the same technology that it used to build the Tianhe-1A system. Network World From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2011
The United States may seriously want to consider creating a new Internet infrastructure to reduce the threat of cyberattacks, said Michael Hayden, President George...NextGov From ACM News | July 12, 2011
If the development of a quantum computer were like motor racing, then we would currently be in the twisty-turny bit that comes before we barrel over the mountain...Arstechnica From ACM News | July 12, 2011
Researchers at Rutgers University, the University of Texas at Austin, and IBM have created a massive virtual supercomputer cloud designed to solve complex computing...Rutgers Today From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2011
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have developed a biomolecular computer that can autonomously sense several different types of molecules at once, and could...PhysOrg.com From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2011
Future computers may rely on magnetic microprocessors that consume the least amount of energy allowed by the laws of physics, according to an analysis by University...UC Berkeley News Center From ACM News | July 8, 2011
In the future, nano-sized computers implanted in the human body could autonomously scan for disease indicators, diagnose diseases, and control the release of...PhysOrg From ACM News | July 8, 2011
Northeastern University's Greg Kerr has developed a process that will make it possible for supercomputers running on the InfiniBand system to save their data part...Northeastern University News From ACM TechNews | July 7, 2011