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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.
Smart phones have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters, but they pose new security and privacy risks. Two assistant...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | November 10, 2009
IBM Canada Lab director Martin Wildberger predicts that unlimited computing capacity will become a reality in the near future, putting the power of modern mainframes...Computerworld Canada From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2009
ACM has recognized 84 members as 2009 Distinguished Members. The number of honorees has more than doubled from a year ago, and ACM says the increase is a reflection...ACM From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2009
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) system was long believed to be invulnerable to attack, but a group of researchers recently demonstrated that there may be...TechNewsWorld From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2009
Researchers at Yahoo!'s Labs in Barcelona, Spain, have developed a distributed search approach that spreads the search index and additional data out over a larger...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2009
A new survey by New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development found a significant shortage of skilled labor in the information technology (IT) industry, despite...Otago Daily Times (New Zealand) From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2009
At the second annual ACM SIGGRAPH Asia conference, which takes place December 16-19 in Yokohama, Japan, computer graphics professionals and researchers will demonstrate...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent as part of a case that could undermine legal protections for software...SA Today From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2009
Virginia Tech's Green500 list is getting a refresh. Since its 2007 debut, the Green500 has ranked only the energy efficiency of the world's 500 fastest performing...Virginia Tech From ACM News | November 9, 2009
The explosive growth of video on the Internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking... From ICT Results | November 9, 2009
Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also...The New York Times From ACM News | November 6, 2009
Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according...Technology Review From ACM News | November 6, 2009
A forthcoming report from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) will explore whether robots could eventually become so intelligent...Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA) From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2009
University of Missouri researchers are developing software that would enable computers to search within videos and identify humans and specific objects, as well...M News Bureau (MO) From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently announced new initiatives aimed at promoting science and technology collaboration with Muslim communities...National Science Foundation From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2009
ACM announced that it is providing institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to help preserve their electronic resources. The...ACM From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2009
The organizers of the Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC) have created a list of 12 teams and has asked them to develop their proposals...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2009
Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network has provided $1.2 million to researchers at the University of Western Ontario to develop a new high-speed network...niversity of Western Ontario From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2009
World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the machine-readable Web is still a ways off and faces numerous obstacles. He says recent initiatives such as the...Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2009
Software packages that interoperate while providing online users with an overview of their colleagues' work may finally lessen the dominance of email as the world's... From ICT Results | November 6, 2009