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
The U.S. Department of Energy's Magellan cloud computing testbed has shown that commercially available clouds suffer in performance when operating message passing...Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2010
Eric Brewer's latest project involves designing and deploying low-cost wireless infrastructure in developing regions.Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2010
Charles P. Thacker talks about the importance of simplicity, reusable tools, thinking broadly, and his practice of Tom Sawyering.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2010
Countries use Internet censorship to dominate the political dialogue, but also to create favorable conditions for government-controlled businesses.Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2010
Semiconductor companies are collaborating with European design centers, universities, and research institutions to develop standards and contribute to building...EDN From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2010
Computers based on the graphical processing unit chips that power today's computer games are increasingly being used in place of supercomputers for many technical...CIO From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2010
Sandia National Laboratories computational scientists will lead two of five technical areas in a U.S. Department of Energy effort to create a "virtual" nuclear...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM News | June 15, 2010
The EC is funding a project to develop a grid of up to six "tier 0" high-performance computing systems and is aiming for a combined computing power in the multi...ZDNet UK From ACM TechNews | June 11, 2010