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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Canadian scientists are developing Canadian Bioinformatics Resources as Semantic Services, a suite of information technology tools designed to aid researchers in...New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2010
University of Southampton computer scientists have developed a system of computerized agents that can manage energy use and storage in the home. niversity of Southampton From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2010
Convincing Internet service providers to pinpoint infected computers on their networks could eliminate the lion's share of zombie computers responsible for churning...Technology Review From ACM News | May 5, 2010
Researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) working on the CMS and ATLAS particle detector experiments are using a software system that...International Science Grid This Week From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2010
Waweru Mwangi, director of the Institute of Computer Science and Information Technology at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta University, demonstrated his Basic Intelligent...Daily Nation (Kenya) From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2010
Wellesley College computer science professor P. Takis Metaxas says "Twitter bombs"—sending many Tweets from a large number of Twitter accounts within a short...Wellesley College From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2010
Tel Aviv University's Koby Scheuer has developed a nano-based filtering device using silicon rubber that is designed to enable faster communications over optical...American Friends of Tel Aviv University From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2010
Intel on Tuesday announced its long-awaited Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, a crowded market populated by a host of formidable rivals--unlike the PC market...CNET From ACM News | May 5, 2010
Funded by the Army Research Lab, the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is dedicated to the emerging discipline...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM News | May 5, 2010
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, now accounts for less than 60% of the market, down from 95% at its peak in 2003, according to new figures.BBC News From ACM News | May 5, 2010
A technology with data from social media is now being used to log the effects of the oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico's north coast. Witnesses' texts, tweets and...The New York Times From ACM News | May 5, 2010
Last week, in an essay criticizing Adobe's Flash platform, Apple CEO Steve Jobs drew attention to, among other things, its lack of support for touch--something...Technology Review From ACM News | May 4, 2010
Intel Labs says it can reuse or reconfigure commodity type servers and convert them into data center routers. The reused servers are programmable and scalable. ...eWeek From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2010
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski wants to keep broadband services deregulated, despite a federal court decision indicating...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2010
If you have a smartphone, you probably have a slice of Steve Furber's brain in your pocket. By the time you read this, his 1-billion-neuron silicon brain will be...New Scientist From ACM News | May 4, 2010
It might be hard to imagine watching "The Office" on a screen no bigger than a business card. But tens of thousands of people--by the most conservative estimate...The New York Times From ACM News | May 4, 2010
Who is actually responsible for sending spam. It might surprise many to learn that the number one source of spam is the United States, according to a new report...CNN From ACM News | May 4, 2010
Researchers from Israel and six EU countries have carried out pioneering work on self-healing software capable of automatically and autonomously detecting, identifying... From ICT Results | May 3, 2010
IPhone, iPad and Motorola Droid users can now, with the touch of a button, instantly access the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer office with a new, free app...Johns Hopkins Medicine From ACM News | May 4, 2010
North Carolina State University's Jay Narayan led a research effort to create a computer chip that has enough memory to store all the information in a library. NCSU News From ACM TechNews | May 3, 2010