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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The National Archives and Records Administration enlisted the Texas Advanced Computing Center to find innovative and scalable solutions to large-scale electronic...National Science Foundation From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2011
The University of Texas at Austin, along with the Texas A&M University, Texas Tech, the University of Texas System, and others, has built the Lonestar 4 supercomputer...Austin American-Statesman From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2011
Facebook Inc. said it would share details for its new server systems and computer rooms with other companies, hoping to set off what it characterized as an open...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 8, 2011
Robots could fill the role of sorting through and categorizing discarded material from construction and demolition projects for recyclers as a result of the efforts...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2011
The U.S. National Science Board recently held a panel discussion exploring the data challenges facing the future of science and engineering research, with the goal...Computing Community Consortium From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2011
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released a white paper describing a tripartite approach to cybersecurity based on automation, interoperability...FierceGovernmentIT From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2011
Like the visual effects you've been seeing in movies these days? Of course, you already know that in most cases they're computer-generated. And as you've seen...AllThingsD From ACM News | March 31, 2011
Frans Kaashoek, a professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and associate director of the Computer Science and Artificial...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 30, 2011
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using supercomputer clusters to run simulations that could help resolve the nuclear...Knoxville News Sentinel From ACM TechNews | March 28, 2011
Silicon may underpin the computers that surround us, but the rigid inflexibility of the semiconductor means it cannot reach everywhere. The first computer processor...Technology Review From ACM News | March 25, 2011
University of Messina professors Salvatore Distefano and Antonio Puliafito suggest using cloud-based volunteer computing, known as Cloud@Home, to solve many ofView...HPC in the Cloud From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2011
Semantic technology is capable of supplying answers to questions that might be of interest to U.S. government agencies that have long struggled with problems identifying...Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2011
One of the most complex efforts toward a quantum computer has been shown off at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas in the U.S. It uses the strange...BBC News From ACM News | March 22, 2011
U.S. Military Academy at West Point cadets are researching ways of using network monitoring tools to automate frontline security. Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | March 17, 2011
Gail Carmichael is one of the few women to enter the Great Canadian Appathon, a 48-hour video game coding competition taking place at college and university campuses...Financial Post (Canada) From ACM TechNews | March 17, 2011
Barrett Technologies is working with the U.S. National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program to develop a Whole Arm Manipulator and a...National Science Foundation From ACM TechNews | March 17, 2011
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has enlisted a team of supercomputer experts to measure the radiation risks caused by the Japanese nuclear crisis...NextGov.com From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2011
Northwestern University researchers say they have developed a switching device that could help lead to the creation of a quantum network. Northwestern University News Center From ACM TechNews | March 14, 2011
The television is channeling you. Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people's TV-viewing behavior with other personal data—in...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 9, 2011
MIT professor Scott Aaronson and grad student Alex Arkhipov will present a paper at ACM's 43rd Symposium on Theory of Computing that describes an experiment, which...MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2011