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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.
Microsoft and researchers from the University of Konstanz in Germany are collaborating to create Videomap, navigation software that incorporates videos of driving...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
This year, 15 teams from Brazil, Canada, the United States, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Spain, among others, participated in the BotPrize contest, which...Carlos III niversity of Madrid (Spain) From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
During ACM's recent Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh won the best paper award for...Carnegie Mellon News From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) says the 2010 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing will include affiliate award programs in Texas...National Center for Women & Information Technology From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
As part of the European Union TENCompetence project, the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies' Hendrik Drachsler searched for the most suitable way to...Centre for Learning Sciences and Technology From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Antonio Torralba and students from the school's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) say...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to build a large cloud computing test bed in an effort to determine whether cloud computing can help meet scientists'...Network World From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
Intel Labs researcher Rob Ennals has developed Dispute Finder, software that highlights inaccurate online information in pink with a link pointing toward a reliable...The Christian Science Monitor From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
Northeastern University is launching an online graduate degree program in information assurance (IA). The program, which will train students to tackle identity...Northeastern niversity From ACM News | October 16, 2009
Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today. This work might one... From ACM News | October 16, 2009
A typical evening at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA, sometimes looks like chaos — two friends cobbling together a robot out of chips, circuit boards and servo...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | October 16, 2009
A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications... From ICT Results | October 16, 2009
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), a joint project between the University of Tennessee (UT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has upgraded...National Institute for Computational Sciences From ACM TechNews | October 15, 2009
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced Wi-Fi Direct, a new Wi-Fi specification that supports standard Wi-Fi data rates and enables Wi-Fi-enabled devices within about...CNet From ACM TechNews | October 15, 2009
Harvard University researchers have received a $10 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to create a colony of flying robotic bees called RoboBees. The...Network World From ACM TechNews | October 15, 2009
The U.S. National Science Foundation has given Arizona State University a five-year, $1.25 million grant to create the Modeling Institute, which will pool university...AS News From ACM TechNews | October 15, 2009
North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to adapt the process used in building video games to help...North Carolina State niversity From ACM TechNews | October 15, 2009
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.7 million grant to an eight-state consortium of technology centers and community colleges that is working...The Associated Press From ACM News | October 15, 2009
Virginia Tech has been awarded a $1.25 million five-year contract by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop, manage, and maintain a public Smart Grid Information...Virginia Tech From ACM News | October 15, 2009
A panel of researchers made a case for funding "high risk, high reward" research during a recent hearing of the U.S. House Science and Technology Subcommittee on...Inside Higher Ed From ACM TechNews | October 14, 2009