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Both IBM's Almaden Research Center and Hewlett-Packard Labs are focused on promoting their companies' core businesses and investigating emerging technologies....Investor's Business Daily From ACM TechNews | April 2, 2009
Washington State University professors Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe and Diane Cook have created a smart home laboratory to assess how technology can help senior...The Daily Evergreen (WA) From ACM TechNews | April 2, 2009
NASA and Microsoft recently announced plans to make planetary images and data accessible over the Internet as part of the Space Act Agreement. NASA and Microsoft...NASA News From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2009
Web services are finding homes in a growing number of applications, from e-learning to manufacturing. But the IT industry's rush to meet demand for services has...ICT Results From ACM News | April 2, 2009
When ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) awarded Barbara Liskov the prestigious A.M. Turing Award earlier this month, its decision and timing were perfect...National Science Foundation From ACM News | April 1, 2009
York University professor Neil Audsley is part of the pan-European Embedded Multi-Core Processing for Mobile Communications project, an effort to make the multi...The niversity of York From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2009
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed Smart Dew, tiny sensors as small as dewdrops that can be arranged in a network. The inexpensive sensors are equipped...American Friends of Tel Aviv niversity From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2009
An informal group of computer security experts said they have observed early attempts by the Conficker virus to communicate with a control server, but they are...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2009
Is America losing its innovative edge? That's the fear of a growing number of tech-industry leaders, who say that U.S. companies are focusing on short-term gains...Investor's Business Daily From ACM News | April 1, 2009
With unemployment skyrocketing across the nation, tech and other companies this year are expected to request fewer H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | April 1, 2009
Although many sectors of the economy are struggling to survive, the information technology (IT) industry is still relatively strong. Employment experts say that...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2009
The EuroSys 2009 conference, sponsored by the European chapter of ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, will focus on computer system research that...ACM From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
Hewlett-Packard Labs is hosting a number of research projects, including one on sustainable data centers that aims to determine how future data centers can be self...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery) has announced the winners of three awards honoring significant contributions to the computing and information technology...ACM From ACM News | March 31, 2009
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is forming a new working group to address scalability issues in the Internet's routing system, which are caused by companies...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL's) Electrical Infrastructure Operations Center features a prototype control room that provides a glimpse into...EE Times From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
A 34-year-old student and part-time tech geek at Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies tried everything to track down a piece of malicious software that...Simple Thoughts From ACM News | March 31, 2009
Researchers from Dortmound, St. Petersburg, Washington, and the Rurh-Universitaet-Bochum (RUB) in Germany have succeeded in aligning electron spin. The researchers...Ruhr-niversity Bochum (Germany) From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
Bangor University computer scientists Nigel John and Jonathan Roberts are developing a "virtual cocoon" that will enable users to experience virtual sites using...Western Mail (Wales) From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
The nation's leading computer science programs say graduating seniors are still sought after by technology vendors and corporate shops, despite the global economic...Network World From ACM Careers | March 31, 2009