Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Haptics Brings a Personal Touch to Technology
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...
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Taiwanese Companies Join on Cloud Computing For Asia
Taiwan's biggest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom, has signed an agreement with Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop maker, to jointly...
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Roll-p Computers and Their Kin
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...
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Synthetic Dna Could Revolutionize Information Processing
A synthetic form of DNA developed by University of Reading chemists has the potential to revolutionize the way digital information is processed and stored.
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Flash! Supercomputing Goes Solid-State
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...
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Beyond the Petaflop: DARPA Wants Quintillion-Speed Computers
DARPA announced an initiative to realize a quintillion calculations/second computer to "meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance, higher...
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Japan to Build 2.4 Petaflop Supercomputer
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...
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In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline
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...
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Researchers Collaborate on Project to Integrate 'Cloud Computing' With 'Grid' Technologies
European researchers working on the StratusLab project are developing software designed to improve distributed computing infrastructures in an effort to enable...
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An Internet 100 Times As Fast
A new network design that avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones could boost capacity while reducing power consumption.
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ncovering Results in the Magellan Testbed
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...
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Pioneering Seac Computer Remembered on 60th Anniversary
Sixty years ago this week, the National Bureau of Standards dedicated the first programmable computer in U.S. history.
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Is Cloud Computing Fast Enough For Science?
The U.S. Department of Energy's Magellan cloud computing testbed has shown that commercially available clouds suffer in performance when operating message passing...
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Eric Brewer: Change Agent
Eric Brewer's latest project involves designing and deploying low-cost wireless infrastructure in developing regions.
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Committed to Success
Charles P. Thacker talks about the importance of simplicity, reusable tools, thinking broadly, and his practice of Tom Sawyering.
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Censored!
Countries use Internet censorship to dominate the political dialogue, but also to create favorable conditions for government-controlled businesses.
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European Research Program Targets Energy-Aware Electronics Design
Semiconductor companies are collaborating with European design centers, universities, and research institutions to develop standards and contribute to building...
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Gaming Chips Score in Data Centers
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...
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Sandia to Play Major Role in Creation of 'virtual' Nuclear Reactor
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...
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