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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


Give a Humanist a Supercomputer . . .
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Give a Humanist a Supercomputer . . .

Humanities researchers involved in the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Energy's high-performance computing competition provided updates...

From ACM TechNews

Disentangling a Billion Dollar Opportunity

Leading representatives from academia, government, and industry recently met at the Institute of Physics to discuss the most recent advances in quantum information...

Ntu and Edb Launch S$50 Million Ic Design Research Centre
From ACM TechNews

Ntu and Edb Launch S$50 Million Ic Design Research Centre

Nanyang Technological University and Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB) have launched the Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Center of Excellence. The center...

Cyber Challenge Tests Nation's Top Hackers
From ACM News

Cyber Challenge Tests Nation's Top Hackers

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...

Real-Time Action in a Virtual World
From ACM TechNews

Real-Time Action in a Virtual World

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...

Learning to Love to Hate Robots
From ACM TechNews

Learning to Love to Hate Robots

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 Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs
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New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs

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...

From ACM TechNews

Complex Integrated Circuits Made of Carbon Nanotubes

Stanford University researchers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) carbon nanotube circuits. Three-dimensional nanotube circuits could be a major...

Privacy Concerns Could Limit Benefits From Real-Time Data Analysis
From ACM TechNews

Privacy Concerns Could Limit Benefits From Real-Time Data Analysis

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) computer scientist Tom M. Mitchell says society will be unable to capitalize on real-time data analysis technologies unless questions...

Scientists Explore Energy Efficiency in Multi-Scale Computing Systems
From ACM TechNews

Scientists Explore Energy Efficiency in Multi-Scale Computing Systems

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...

Handheld Touch Screen Device May Lead to Mobile Fingerprint Id
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Handheld Touch Screen Device May Lead to Mobile Fingerprint Id

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed software for a handheld touch-screen device that identifies fingerprints and faces. A major...

Smarter Cars Are Gaining Traction
From ICT Results

Smarter Cars Are Gaining Traction

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...

Prototype Laser System Lets ­sers Feel Remote Objects
From ACM News

Prototype Laser System Lets ­sers Feel Remote Objects

The haptics feedback technology on touchscreen phones uses vibrating pulses to replace the tactility of, for example, pressing a physical button. At the recent...

From ACM News

MIT Breaks New Ground in Gesture Control

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...

Our Devices Will Spin Denser Webs of Data in 2010
From ACM News

Our Devices Will Spin Denser Webs of Data in 2010

Over the next decade, the evolution of computing and the Internet will produce faster, increasingly intelligent devices. More of our possessions will contain sensors...

From Communications of the ACM

ACM and India

ACM is in the process of establishing ACM India as a legal entity and will hold its first conference in late January....

Robert Lovett Ashenhurst: 1929 - 2009
From Communications of the ACM

Robert Lovett Ashenhurst: 1929 - 2009

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...

Future Internet Design Summit
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Future Internet Design Summit

The National Science Foundation's meeting on Internet architectures focused on designs related to emerging social and economic realities. The four-day,  invitation...

New Search Challenges and Opportunities
From Communications of the ACM

New Search Challenges and Opportunities

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.

Automated Translation of Indian Languages
From Communications of the ACM

Automated Translation of Indian Languages

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...
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