If manmade devices could be combined with biological machines, laptops and other electronic devices could get a boost in operating efficiency. Lawrence Livermore...Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory From ACM News | September 8, 2009
IBM Japan Ltd. is accelerating the proliferation of cloud computing at universities as part of a global strategy by parent company IBM Corp. aimed at attracting...TradingMarkets.com From ACM News | September 8, 2009
Google Inc.'s newly departed China chief outlined his plans for a technology-incubation company, capitalized with $115 million from several prominent backers. Kai...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 8, 2009
Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game "World of Warcraft." As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa.Alexander, 19,...The Associated Press From ACM News | September 24, 2009
A silicon chip about the size of a penny that uses photons to run Shor's algorithm has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol in the...BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
WikiTrust, developed by University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) researchers, helps users evaluate information published on Wikipedia by automatically assigning...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
ACM has submitted comments on the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund program that stress the need to ensure the level of support and attention...ACM From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
Enigma@home is attempting to break one of three original messages generated by the Enigma machine, which was intercepted by the Allies in 1942. The Enigma M4 machine...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
College students seeking careers in computer science and engineering have the best chance of being hired in the wake of the recession, according to a Challenger...InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
The Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) is using three-dimensional (3D) technology to enable students to interact with the content covered in...Converge From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention... From ICT Results | September 4, 2009
University of Alberta researchers Marcia Spetch and Vadim Bulitko have completed a study on the decisions humans make when hiding and searching for objects. They...niversity of Alberta From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2009
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released a report that outlines several scenarios in which attacks against vital elements of the U.S.'s IT infrastructure...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2009
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) researchers have received a five-year, $5 million National Science Foundation grant to establish the Simulation, Visualization...niversity of Texas at San Antonio From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2009
Rutgers University is among a group of New Jersey colleges that are working to get more women interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering...The Star-Ledger (NJ) From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2009
University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) researchers have received more than $2 million from the National Science Foundation to investigate the public's use...C-Boulder News Center From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2009
Engineers around the world are exploring all kinds of possibilities for wearable robot interfaces, from brain implants to touch interfaces. Professor Jacob Rosen... From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2009
Tel Aviv University professor Eran Halperin and researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have developed a mathematical formula that can be used to...American Friends of Tel Aviv niversity From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2009
University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) researchers have developed a new method for blacklisting spam, distributed denial-of-service attacks, worms, and other...Dark Reading From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2009
The second draft of a U.S. Senate cybersecurity bill scales back language that would give the president the ability to shut down the Internet in an emergency....Network World From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2009