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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.
Software engineering techniques for very large data systems will be the focus of research at Queen's University in Canada, which has received a $5 million investment...Queen's niversity From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2009
Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems have found their way into medical environments to track patients, equipment assets and staff members. However, there...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | October 6, 2009
The U.S. National Science Foundation has selected the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) to be part of a team to construct and operate an experimental high-performance...CSD News From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
A team of five undergraduates from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering have placed first in a competition run by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers...Virginia Tech News From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
After four decades, the Unix platform is still very important to enterprise information technology and has many years of usefulness left to it, even though Linux...InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
People are worried that library catalogs are in danger of marginalization because they present information online in a clunky, non-intuitive way that often frustrates...The Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
Wesleyan University and Trinity College students have developed Collabbit, software that acts as a virtual emergency response center. Collabbit serves as a central...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
The Vanish security system has been broken by a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, and the University of Michigan...niversity of Texas at Austin From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
Telepresence technology has a long way to go before people can perform everyday duties with robotic avatars. Present-day telepresence interfaces consist of joysticks...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
European researchers have created a CMOS semiconductor camera capable of filming individual photons one million times a second. The breakthrough will have an... From ICT Results | October 5, 2009
A European research project that incubates self-managing Internet applications is paying off. It has inspired a Wikipedia that the researchers claim is betterSELFMAN... From ICT Results | October 2, 2009
Some of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are launching projects along with global universities to offer students and faculty more opportunities for collaborative...Business Standard From ACM Careers | October 5, 2009
Robots are increasingly becoming ubiquitous in education. The Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million contest to design a robot capable of traveling to the moon, is...EE Times From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
Although the iPhone can superimpose navigation routes or reviews on top of real-time images, augmented reality (AR) still has a long way to go. The iPhone's application...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
With help from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Delft University doctoral student Jurjen Caarls has created a device that allows users to see computer and...Delft niversity of Technology From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
Researchers led by Cornell University's Mark Foster report that they have developed a prototype device that could significantly boost the volume of information...BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
The U.S. National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program has awarded Louisiana Tech University $736,500 for a four-year initiative called "Creating a Culture of Success...Louisiana Tech niversity From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
Royal Holloway, University of London, will integrate its intelligent agent technology with distributed data management technology developed by the software company...Royal Holloway, niversity of London From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
Google developers Lars and Jens Rasmussen have released a limited preview of an open source messenger called Wave. Users must be invited to test the application...BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers, and professionals...ACM From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009