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.
From ACM News
IBM Japan Giving niversities Taste of Cloud Computing
IBM Japan Ltd. is accelerating the proliferation of cloud computing at universities as part of a global strategy by parent company IBM Corp. aimed at attracting...
From ACM News
Internet Addiction Center Opens In .s.
Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game "World of Warcraft." As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa.Alexander, 19,...
From ACM TechNews
Still Trying to Crack Nazi Enigma Messages
Enigma@home is attempting to break one of three original messages generated by the Enigma machine, which was intercepted by the Allies in 1942. The Enigma M4 machine...
From ICT Results
The Right Honorable Computer, Barrister-at-Law
European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention...
From ACM TechNews
Child's Play May Revolutionize Video Gaming, Police Work
University of Alberta researchers Marcia Spetch and Vadim Bulitko have completed a study on the decisions humans make when hiding and searching for objects. They...
From ACM TechNews
Dhs Report: It Sector Is Resilient Against Serious Cyberattacks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released a report that outlines several scenarios in which attacks against vital elements of the U.S.'s IT infrastructure...
From ACM TechNews
tsa Wins $5 Million in Stimulus Funds For New Interdisciplinary Center
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) researchers have received a five-year, $5 million National Science Foundation grant to establish the Simulation, Visualization...
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Female High Schoolers Targeted For Math, Science Degrees By N.j. Colleges
Rutgers University is among a group of New Jersey colleges that are working to get more women interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering...
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Researchers Will Tap Social Media to Support Citizens in Emergency Response
University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) researchers have received more than $2 million from the National Science Foundation to investigate the public's use...
From ACM TechNews
Getting Your Robot On: Wearable Machines' Intimate Interface
Engineers around the world are exploring all kinds of possibilities for wearable robot interfaces, from brain implants to touch interfaces. Professor Jacob Rosen...
From ACM TechNews
Open Source Dna
Tel Aviv University professor Eran Halperin and researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have developed a mathematical formula that can be used to...
From ACM TechNews
Filtering Network Attacks With a 'netflix' Method
University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) researchers have developed a new method for blacklisting spam, distributed denial-of-service attacks, worms, and other...
From ACM TechNews
Lawmakers Strike New Tone With Proposed Cybersecurity Bill
The second draft of a U.S. Senate cybersecurity bill scales back language that would give the president the ability to shut down the Internet in an emergency....
From ACM TechNews
Faster Searches Key to a Greener Web
University of Glasgow researchers created a system using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to search a document index 20 times faster than a system based on...
From ACM TechNews
Paris Event to Showcase Informatics Advances, Honor European Pioneers
The fifth edition of the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) will take place in Paris on October 8-9, 2009, with a special workshop for new (and not so new)...
From ACM News
Budget, Personnel Cutbacks Could Be a Cause of It Outages
When eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit suffered a worldwide outage early last month, Sailrite Enterprises Inc., a sailing supply company based in Churubusco, Ind., lost its...
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Computational Process Zeroes in on Top Genetic Cancer Suspects
A team of engineers at Johns Hopkins University have devised innovative computer software that can sift through hundreds of genetic mutations and highlight the...
From ACM TechNews
Dhs Cybersecurity Chiefs Speak Out
As federal agencies continue to brainstorm ways to effectively oversee cybersecurity, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is increasing its foothold...
From ACM TechNews
National Science Foundation Awards $1.4 Million For Genocad Development
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech professor Jean Peccoud has been awarded a three-year, $1.42 million grant from the National Science Foundation...
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