Humanities researchers involved in the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Energy's high-performance computing competition provided updates...Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Leading representatives from academia, government, and industry recently met at the Institute of Physics to discuss the most recent advances in quantum information...Institute of Physics From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Nanyang Technological University and Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB) have launched the Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Center of Excellence. The center...Nanyang Technological niversity (Singapore) From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
With the coolness of a card shark at the final table of the World Series of Poker, Matt Bergin pulls the hood of his brown sweatshirt over his head and concentrates...CNN.com From ACM News | December 21, 2009
A new digital system developed by the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley enables people in different locations to interact in real...Futurity.org From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Several studies have recently been conducted to determine how humans and robots interact and how to improve the human-robot relationship. For example, a Carnegie...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Educators and technologists say both the image of computing work and computer science education in high schools need to change to fill what are expected to be the...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Stanford University researchers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) carbon nanotube circuits. Three-dimensional nanotube circuits could be a major...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) computer scientist Tom M. Mitchell says society will be unable to capitalize on real-time data analysis technologies unless questions...Carnegie Mellon News From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and nine other universities are collaborating on the Multi-Scale Systems Center (MuSyC), a new research center that...CSD News From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed software for a handheld touch-screen device that identifies fingerprints and faces. A major...NIST Tech Beat From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Lives can depend on a vehicle’s moment-by-moment traction. New European technology promises to make cars as good as experienced, alert drivers at sensing and adjusting... From ICT Results | December 19, 2009
The haptics feedback technology on touchscreen phones uses vibrating pulses to replace the tactility of, for example, pressing a physical button. At the recent...Crave From ACM News | December 21, 2009
A group of MIT researchers claims to have made a significant leap in gesture-controlled computing, due to a new kind of LCD screen configuration they describe as...Venture Beat From ACM News | December 21, 2009
Over the next decade, the evolution of computing and the Internet will produce faster, increasingly intelligent devices. More of our possessions will contain sensors...The Seattle Times From ACM News | December 21, 2009
ACM is in the process of establishing ACM India as a legal entity and will hold its first conference in late January....Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2010
Former Communications editor-in-chief Robert L. Ashenhurst, who died last October at age 80, served ACM for 35 years with dedication, humor, and panache, according...Karen A. Frenkel From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2010
The National Science Foundation's meeting on Internet architectures focused on designs related to emerging social and economic realities. The four-day, invitation...Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2010
If search engines can extract more meaning from text and better understand what people are looking for, the Web's resources could be accessed more effectively.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2010
India faces a daunting task trying to manually translate among 22 official languages, but assistance, in the form of advanced technology enabled by a lot of hard...Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2010